PyIMCLSTS #
This tool reads the IMC schema from a XML file, locally creates files containing the messages and connects (imports) the main global machinery.
See /example to check an example implementation of the Follow Reference maneuver.
Installation #
The package is hosted in the PyPi repository and the source code is available on GitHub.
Installing #
$ pip3 install pyimclsts
Or, if you are cloning the repo, from the folder where pyproject.toml is located:
$ pip3 install .
Extracting/Generating messages: #
Choose a folder and have a version of the IMC schema, that is, a file named IMC.xml. Otherwise, it will automatically fetch the latest IMC version from the LSTS git repository. Just run:
$ python3 -m pyimclsts.extract
This will locally extract the IMC.xml as Python classes. You will see a folder called pyimc_generated which contains base messages, bitfields and enumerations from the IMC.xml file. They can be locally loaded using, for example:
import pyimc_generated as pg
Features #
Pure Python #
This package uses only Python code, which means it can run wherever Python runs.
Multi-version #
By creating messages locally and installing only the shared functions, it is possible to work with different versions of the IMC on the same Python environment.
Type annotations and docstrings #
To help code and understand the IMC schema, type hints and docstrings were added wherever possible.