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INSTALLATION: SimPy
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:Author: Klaus G. Muller
:Contact: kgmuller@users.sourceforge.net
:Author: Tony Vignaux
:Contact: vignaux@users.sourceforge.net
:Date: $Date: 2003 June 15$
:Revision: $Revision: 1.3 $
:Web-site: http://simpy.sourceforge.net/

This file describes the installation of SimPy 1.3.

In order to install SimPy on your system, you will need to perform the
following steps:

1. Check that you have Python 2.2 or a later version installed on your
   system. If necessary, download it from http://www.python.org and
   install it.

2. Download and unpack the SimPy archive producing a
   directory SimPy-1.3 containing documentation and directory SimPy
   which contains the SimPy code.  Run "python setup.py install" from inside
   directory SimPy-1.3.  This will install the SimPy programs into the
   Python search path. 

3. Run one or more of the programs in the directory SimPyTests to see
   whether Python finds the SimPy module. If you get an error message
   like "ImportError: No module named SimPy", move the SimPy folder
   into a directory which you know to be on the Python module search
   path.

4. Read the tutorial and manual and build your own simple models. A
   few lines of Python with SimPy calls can already model significant
   real systems.

Enjoy simulation programming in SimPy!. 