pylabrad is an interface to the LabRAD system in python with support for both clients and servers. For general information about the LabRAD system/protocol see the labrad repository and associated wiki. For help getting started and understanding pylabrad take a look at the wiki.

In addition to the basic labrad client/server support, this package also includes a tool called the "node" server in the labrad.node package. This server just runs other labrad servers, allowing you to start and stop them by sending labrad requests to the node. By running node servers on one or more machines connected to labrad, you can remotely control which labrad servers are running on those machines. This can be very useful in distributed setups. For more information, see the source. The node module is executable, so you should launch it with python -m labrad.node. To see documentation of the available command-line parameters run python -m labrad.node --help.

For instructions on how to contribute to pylabrad, see contributing.md.

New code should have tests, and changes to existing code should not break existing tests. To run the test suite, you'll need to have pytest installed, then run py.test from the command line when in the pylabrad directory.

This repo was moved from the martinisgroup organization. To tell git to pull updates from the new location, you'll want to update the 'origin' remote in your local repository. Use git remote -v to see the names and urls for all remotes you have defined, then git remote set-url to update the url, changing the organization to labrad:

$ git remote -v
origin	git@github.com:martinisgroup/pylabrad (fetch)
origin	git@github.com:martinisgroup/pylabrad (push)

$ git remote set-url origin git@github.com:labrad/pylabrad

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