Python API

On Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu 18.04, a Shasta build includes a shared library shasta-build/shasta-install/shasta.so which behaves as a Python module. Python code can import shasta to use the functionality provided by the module. To create documentation for the Python API, see directions in shasta/docs/PythonApi/README. For the Python interpreter to find the module you must either:

• Make sure the Python script that contains import shasta is in the same directory that contains shasta.so (shasta-build/shasta-install/bin). All Python scripts provided with Shasta are copied to that location during the build process.
• Or, set environment variable PYTHONPATH to the name of the directory where shasta.so is located.