The qsharp
package for Python provides interoperability with the Quantum Development Kit and with the Q# language, making it easy to simulate Q# operations and functions from within Python.
For details on how to get started with Python and Q#, please see the Getting Started with Python guide.
If you use Anaconda or Miniconda, installing the qsharp
package will automatically include all dependencies:
conda install -c quantum-engineering qsharp
If you'd like to contribute to or experiment with the Python interoperability feature, it may be useful to install from source rather than from the qsharp
package on the Python Package Index (PyPI).
To do so, make sure that you are in the src
directory, and run setup.py
with the install
argument:
cd iqsharp/src/Python/
python setup.py install
The Python interoperability feature uses a standard setuptools
-based packaging strategy.
To build a platform-independent wheel, run the setup script with bdist_wheel
instead:
cd iqsharp/src/Python/
python setup.py bdist_wheel
By default, this will create a qsharp
wheel in dist/
with the version number set to 0.0.0.1.
To provide a more useful version number, set the ASSEMBLY_VERSION
environment variable before running setup.py
.