INSTALLATION: SimPy

Authors: Tony Vignaux <Vignaux@users.sourceforge.net>
Klaus Muller <Muller@users.sourceforge.net>
SimPy version:1.9
SimPy Web-site:http://simpy.sourceforge.net/
SimPy wiki:http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/cgi-bin/wiki/SimPy
Python-Version:2.3+
Revision: 1.1.1.14
Date: 2007-12-15

This file describes the installation of SimPy 1.9.

In order to install SimPy on your system, you will need to perform the following steps:

  1. Check that you have Python 2.3 or a later version installed on your system. If necessary, download it from http://www.python.org and install it.
  2. Download and unpack the SimPy archive into a folder (using option "Use folder names" in WinZip, "Re-create folders" in Linux Archive Manager, or similar option in your unpacker). This will create a SimPy-1.9 folder with all source code and documentation. Run "python setup.py install" in that folder. This will install the SimPy programs in a folder on the Python search path (typically /Lib/site-packages).
  3. Run one or more of the programs under /SimPy-1.9/SimPyModels to see whether Python finds the SimPy module. If you get an error message like "ImportError: No module named SimPy", move the SimPy folder into a directory which you know to be on the Python module search path (like /Lib/site-packages).
  4. Read the tutorial and manuals and build your own simple models. A few lines of Python with SimPy calls can already model significant real systems.

Enjoy simulation programming in SimPy!