Before Running the scripts, please have python packages numpy and pandas installed.

Please download the 64bit python 3.6 version of anaconda, which contains python and all packages we need to run xxdb api python scripts https://www.continuum.io/downloads

Download and install the latest python 3.6.*

sudo easy_install pip
pip install numpy pandas

Then, please go to our python api folder and install the package through the following command:

• To install for the first time: python setup.py install

• To update the existing install: python setup.py install --force

Assuming you have dolphindb SERVER running on port 8848, you can run the following commands in python console

import dolphindb as ddb

# start a DolphinDB session
s = ddb.session() 

# connect to DolphinDB server
success = s.connect('localhost', 8848)

# or connect with login info
success = s.connect('localhost', 8848, "admin", "123456") 


if success:
    obj = s.run("Your XXDB script") # run dolphinDB script
    print(obj)

For more examples, please refer to python api tutorial:

The jupter notebook tutorial here

or

https://github.com/dolphindb/Tutorials_EN/blob/master/python_api.md

session.py: DolphinDB api for querying DolphinDB server
settings.py: contain the data form and type definitions, and other settings
data_factory.py: python data building factory based on returned DolphinDB object
socket_util.py: python socket protocols
date_util.py: converting integer into python datetime object
table.py: manipulate DolphinDB SQL query through python class "Table".