Developer’s Guide¶
The below sections will walk through how to set up a development environment, make changes to the code, and test that they work. See the How to contribute section for more information on getting started and contributor expectations. Additional information for developer’s can be found at the pages listed below.
Coding guidelines¶
Satpy is part of Pytroll, and all code should follow the Pytroll coding guidelines and best practices.
Satpy is now Python 3 only and it is no longer needed to support Python 2.
Check setup.py
for the current Python versions any new code needs
to support.
Development installation¶
See the Installation Instructions section for basic installation instructions. When it comes time to install Satpy it should be installed from a clone of the git repository and in development mode so that local file changes are automatically reflected in the python environment. We highly recommend making a separate conda environment or virtualenv for development.
First, if you plan on contributing back to the project you should fork the repository and clone your fork. The package can then be installed in development by doing:
pip install -e .
Running tests¶
Satpy tests are written using the python unittest
module and the
third-party pytest package. Satpy tests can be executed by
running:
pytest satpy/tests
Documentation¶
Satpy’s documentation is built using Sphinx. All documentation lives in the
doc/
directory of the project repository. After editing the source files
there the documentation can be generated locally:
cd doc
make html
The output of the make command should be checked for warnings and errors. If code has been changed (new functions or classes) then the API documentation files should be regenerated before running the above command:
sphinx-apidoc -f -T -o source/api ../satpy ../satpy/tests