Installation

The Ballet framework is distributed as a Python package available on PyPI. The package includes

  • the ballet CLI

  • the ballet Python SDK

  • the ballet feature engineering “plugin”

  • the ballet project template and feature template

Stable release

To install ballet, run this command in your terminal:

$ pip install ballet

This is the preferred method to install ballet, as it will always install the most recent stable release.

If you don’t have pip installed, this Python installation guide can guide you through the process.

From source

The source for ballet can be downloaded from the Github repo.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/ballet/ballet

Or download the tarball:

$ curl  -OL https://github.com/ballet/ballet/tarball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with:

$ make install