Developer’s Overview

Contributing

Contribute to source code, documentation, examples and report issues on bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/hardbyte/python-can

Creating a Release

• Release from the default branch.
• Update the library version in setup.py and in doc/conf.py using

semantic versioning. - Run all tests and examples against available hardware. - Update CONTRIBUTORS.txt with any new contributors. - Sanity check that documentation has stayed inline with code. For large changes update doc/history.rst - Create a temporary virtual environment. Run python setup.py install and python setup.py test - Create and upload the distribution: python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel upload --sign - In a new virtual env check that the package can be installed with pip: pip install python-can

Code Structure

The modules in python-can are:

Module	Description
interfaces	Contains interface dependent code.
protocols	Currently just the J1939 protocol exists here
bus	Contains the interface independent Bus object.
CAN	Contains modules to emulate a CAN system, such as a time stamps, read/write streams and listeners.
message	Contains the interface independent Message object.
notifier	An object which can be used to notify listeners.
broadcastmanager	Contains interface independent broadcast manager code.