The mission of the PlasmaPy Project is to foster the creation of an open source Python ecosystem for plasma research and education.

Install PlasmaPy

PlasmaPy may be installed from the command line using pip:

pip install plasmapy

Note: If you run into difficulty using pip, you may also try using pip3 or python -m pip or python3 -m pip as the command.

If you have a working installation of conda, then you may install PlasmaPy with:

conda install -c conda-forge plasmapy

PlasmaPy's documentation contains more detailed installation instructions. If you are unfamiliar with Python, please check out the Python website.

Learn PlasmaPy

PlasmaPy's documentation describes how to use PlasmaPy and includes a gallery of example notebooks.

Get Help

We encourage you to ask questions on GitHub Discussions or to stop by a PlasmaPy community meeting.

Contribute and Report Bugs

There are many ways to contribute to an open source project, including making feature requests, submitting bug reports, and organizing events. PlasmaPy's contributor guide covers getting ready to contribute, the code contribution workflow, coding guidelines, writing tests, and writing documentation.

Acknowledgments

Development of PlasmaPy has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Smithsonian Institution, NASA, and Google Summer of Code, with many contributions from the broader plasma physics and open source communities.