pykechain is a python library for advanced users of KE-chain. It will enable users to connect and fully interact
to all features of KE-chain, the digital verification and high tech systems design
platform of KE-works.
With it you can interact with KE-chain, its parts, projects, forms, workflows, activities, scripts and all other
aspects of KE-chain from within python scripts or iPython / Jupyter notebooks.
It requires a normal user access to a KE-chain (version 3) instance for it to work.
Note
This version of pykechain (> 4.0.0) is compatible with the latest release of KE-chain where we added the Forms feature. It is fully backward compatible with all KE-chain versions v2022 and higher. This version discontinues support for python version 3.6.
Note
This version of pykechain (> 3.0.0) is suited from KE-chain versions > 3 (or > v2021) running
on python >= 3.7 exclusively. If you desire to connect to an older version of KE-chain or
run on python 2.7, please use a pykechain v2 release. Put in the requirements pykechain~=2.7.
Ensure you have member access to a KE-chain instance and login:
from pykechain import Client kec = Client(url='https://<domain>.ke-chain.com') kec.login(username='demo_user', password='pastaplease')
Now interact with it:
project = kec.scope('Bike Project')
for part in project.parts():
print(part.name)
pykechain is easily installed using pip. pykechain is Python 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10
and pypy3 compatible:
pip install pykechain
Or if you want to live on the edge, install the latest and greatest from the master branch:
pip install https://github.com/KE-works/pykechain/archive/main.zip
In scripts you can either use Pipenv or a pip requirements.txt file to
install pykechain as a requirement
in a Pipfile:
[packages]
pykechain = "*"
# or when you want to install a certain branch
pykechain = {ref = "main", git = "https://github.com/KE-works/pykechain"}
in a pip requirements.txt:
pykechain # or when you want to install a certain branch i.e. `main` git+https://github.com/KE-works/pykechain.git@main#egg=pykechain
A proper changelog is maintained in the Changelog