Installation

Supported Python versions

• 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 (recommended)

• 3.13 (works; may build SciPy from source on some Linux setups → slower CI)

Stable

pip install cedar-toolkit

Development install

git clone https://github.com/jake-casselman/cedar.git
cd cedar
python -m venv env
source env/bin/activate  # .\env\Scripts\activate on Windows
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -e .[dev]

Verify core dependencies:

python -c "import CoolProp, numpy, scipy, matplotlib; print('All dependencies imported successfully.')"

Running tests

pytest
# or with coverage:
pytest --cov=cedar --cov-report=term-missing -v

Troubleshooting

Tip

macOS (Apple Silicon): use Python 3.12+ and recent pip; wheels are available for numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and CoolProp.

Warning

If you see SciPy building from source in CI on Linux (long “Preparing metadata” steps), pin your CI matrix to Python <=3.12 until prebuilt wheels for 3.13 are available.