This is a python implementation of the MAVLink protocol.

Please see http://www.qgroundcontrol.org/mavlink/pymavlink for documentation

Pymavlink is currently a Python 2 package. It is recommended to install and use it with Python 2.

However an initial Python 3 support is given The following instruction assume your are using Python 2 and an Ubuntu installation

Pymavlink requires two dependencies :

- future : for python 2 and python 3 interoperability
- lxml : for checking and parsing xml file

Using pip you can install the required dependencies

sudo pip2 install -r requirements.txt

Or

sudo pip2 install -U future lxml

Use pip to install future as for linux. Lxml can be installed with a windows installer from here : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/lxml/3.6.0

It is recommended to install pymavlink from PyPi with pip, that way dependencies should be auto install by pip.

sudo pip2 install -U pymavlink

The -U parameter allow to update pymavlink version if it is already installed.

On the pymavlink directory, prefer use of

sudo pip2 install .

instead of

sudo python2 setup.py install

That way pip should auto install dependencies and allow to keep them up-to-date with pip.

Please see Pip documentation : https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/

pymavlink is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3 or later

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