Development¶
This package is developed using continuous integration which can be found here:
https://travis-ci.org/python-excel/xlwt
If you wish to contribute to this project, then you should fork the repository found here:
https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt
Once that has been done and you have a checkout, you can follow these instructions to perform various development tasks:
Setting up a virtualenv¶
The recommended way to set up a development environment is to turn your checkout into a virtualenv and then install the package in editable form as follows:
$ virtualenv .
$ bin/pip install -Ur requirements.txt
Running the tests¶
Once you’ve set up a virtualenv, the tests can be run as follows:
$ bin/nosetests
Building the documentation¶
The Sphinx documentation is built by doing the following, having activated the virtualenv above, from the directory containing setup.py:
$ cd docs
$ make html