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Installation and Importing
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Before installing the Flood Modeller API, first ensure you already have Python installed on your machine (version 3.8 or greater) and, ideally, have a dedicated python environment set up.
Consider using `miniforge <https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge>`_ as a lightweight, open-source package manager. 

Once you have your Python environment set up, you can install the floodmodeller_api package directly from PyPI using the following command:

.. code:: console

   pip install floodmodeller-api

It is recommended to regularly update directly from PyPI as this will ensure you have latest version:

.. code:: console

   pip install floodmodeller-api --upgrade

To ensure the package has installed successfully, have a go at running all of the package tests:

.. code:: console

   pytest --pyargs floodmodeller_api