.. _installation:

Installation
============

The easiest way to install xlwings is via pip::

    pip install xlwings


Alternatively, on the ``Anaconda`` distribution, xlwings can be installed via ``conda``::

    conda install xlwings

Note that as of Anaconda 2.0 (Python 2.7 version), xlwings is already included.

Alternatively it can be installed from source. From within the ``xlwings`` directory, execute::

    python setup.py install


Python version support
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xlwings runs on Python 2.6-2.7 and 3.1-3.4