qPython 1.0 Beta

qPython is a Python library providing support for interprocess communication between Python and kdb+ processes, it offers:

• Synchronous and asynchronous queries
• Convenient asynchronous callbacks mechanism
• Support for kdb+ protocol and types: v3.0, v2.6, v<=2.5
• Uncompression of the IPC data stream
• Internal representation of data via numpy arrays (lists, complex types) and numpy data types (atoms)
• Supported on Python 2.7 and numpy 1.8

Building package

Compile Cython extensions

qPython utilizes Cython to tune performance critical parts of the code.

Instructions:

• Execute: python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Build binary distribution

Instructions:

• Execute: python setup.py bdist

Testing

qPython uses py.test as a test runner for unit tests.

Instructions:

• Make sure that top directory is included in the PYTHONPATH
• Execute: py.test

Requirements

• numpy 1.8
• Cython 0.20.1

Required libraries can be installed using pip. Execute: pip install -r requirements.txt