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# Installation

## Users

To use leather install it with pip:

    pip install leather

## Developers

If you are a developer that also wants to hack on leather, install it from git:

    git clone git://github.com/wireservice/leather.git
    cd leather
    mkvirtualenv leather

    pip install -e .[test]

    python setup.py develop

Note

To run the leather tests with coverage:

    pytest --cov leather

## Supported platforms

leather supports the following versions of Python:

- Python 2.7

- Python 3.3+

- PyPy

It is tested primarily on OSX, but due to its minimal dependencies it should work on both Linux and Windows.

Note

iPython or Jupyter user? Leather works great there too.