wmayner / pyanimats

Python code for evolving “animats” (virtual organisms)

pyanimats

Installation

This package must be installed with conda.

1. Create the environment from the environment.yml file: conda env create --name=<name_of_your_environment> --file=environment.yml
2. Activate the environment: conda activate <name_of_your_environment>
3. Build the C++ extensions by running make.
4. Check that you can run the example simulation: from within the top-level directory of the repository, run python -m pyanimats <output_directory> run experiments/example.yml

Command-line interface (CLI)

You can run pyanimats from the command line like so:

python -m pyanimats

Note that you must run it as a Python module, i.e. with python -m.

CLI usage information

To see information on how to use the CLI, run

python -m pyanimats --help