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Examples
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This directory contains LinPy examples programs.
+
Running Examples
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-To run the individual examples one needs to have Python version ≥ 3.4 installed and linpy must be in your ``PYTHONPATH`` environment variable.
-Most examples can be run from the command line ``python3`` and the name of the example::
+To run the individual examples one needs to have Python version 3.4 or above
+installed and LinPy must be in your ``PYTHONPATH`` environment variable. Most
+examples can be run from the command line ``python3`` and the name of the
+example::
vivien@rochefort:~/linpy/examples$ export PYTHONPATH=$PWD/..:$PYTHONPATH
vivien@rochefort:~/linpy/examples$ python3 squares.py
-Note: on most systems, the current directory is searched by Python automatically, so ``python3 examples/squares.py`` works from the LinPy root directory, however there are systems (Ubuntu Intrepid) where this doesn't work by default, unless you put ``PYTHONPATH=.`` into your .bashrc for example.
+Note: on most systems, the current directory is searched by Python
+automatically, so ``python3 examples/squares.py`` works from the LinPy root
+directory, however there are systems (Ubuntu Intrepid) where this doesn't work
+by default, unless you put ``PYTHONPATH=.`` into your .bashrc for example.