install.md

Getting Started

Installing bt

The easiest way to install bt is from the Python Package Index using pip:

$ pip install bt

Since bt has many dependencies, we strongly recommend installing the Anaconda Scientific Python Distribution, especially on Windows. This distribution comes with many of the required packages pre-installed, including pip. Once Anaconda is installed, the above command should complete the installation.

bt is also available on Conda Forge, and installable via:

$ conda install bt --channel conda-forge

bt is compatible with Python >=3.9.

Recommended Setup

We believe the best environment to develop with bt is the IPython Notebook. From their homepage, the IPython Notebook is:

"[...] a web-based interactive computational environment where you can combine code execution, text, mathematics, plots and rich media into a single document [...]"

This environment allows you to plot your charts in-line and also allows you to easily add surrounding text with Markdown. You can easily create Notebooks that you can share with colleagues and you can also save them as PDFs. If you are not yet convinced, head over to their website.