A Python library for controlling the hardware attached to the Raspberry Pi's header pins, without running as the root user.
The library depends on Python 3.1. To install Python 3.1 run this command from an administrator account, such as pi:
sudo apt-get install python3
You'll also find the python tools virtualenv and pip useful:
sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
The GPIO API depends on Quick2Wire GPIO Admin. To install Quick2Wire GPIO Admin, follow the instructions at http://github.com/quick2wire/quick2wire-gpio-admin
The I2C API depends on I2C support in the kernel. We've been using Chris Boot's kernel builds from http://www.bootc.net/projects/raspberry-pi-kernel/
The library is currently under active development, so we do not
recommend installing it into the system-wide Python libraries.
Instead, you can either use it without installation or
install it into an isolated Python development environment created with virtualenv.
To use the library without installation, add the full path of the
src subdirectory of the source tree to the PYTHONPATH environment
variable. For example:
export QUICK2WIRE_API_HOME=[the directory cloned from Git or unpacked from the source archive]
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$QUICK2WIRE_API_HOME/src
If you're using virtualenv, make your virtualenv active, and then run:
python3 setup.py install