Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: olca-ipc
Version: 2.0.2
Summary: A package for calling openLCA functions from Python.
Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/GreenDelta/olca-ipc.py
Project-URL: Bug Tracker, https://github.com/GreenDelta/olca-ipc.py/issues
Keywords: openLCA,life cycle assessment,LCA
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Topic :: Utilities
Requires-Python: >=3.11
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE
Requires-Dist: olca-schema>=0.0.12
Requires-Dist: requests>=2.28.1

# olca-ipc

`olca-ipc` is a Python package for inter-process communication (IPC) with
openLCA. With this, it is possible to call functions of openLCA and processing
their results in Python. It implements the unified IPC protocol of openLCA for
JSON-RPC and REST APIs. The documentation of these protocols and examples can be
found in the __[openLCA IPC
documentation](https://greendelta.github.io/openLCA-ApiDoc/ipc/)__.

**Note** that this version only works with the **openLCA >= 2** and requires
**Python >= 3.11**. The last stable version for **openLCA 1.x** is
[0.0.12](https://pypi.org/project/olca-ipc/0.0.12/):

```bash
# for openLCA 1.x
pip install olca-ipc==0.0.12
```

The source code and API documentation of the version for openLCA 1.x is in the
`v1` branch of this repository. For openLCA >=2, you should install the latest
version from [pypi.org](https://pypi.org/project/olca-ipc).

```bash
# for openLCA >= 2
pip install -U olca-ipc
```

If you just want to read and write data for openLCA 2, you can also directly
use the [olca-schema package](https://pypi.org/project/olca-schema/), which
is a dependency of `olca-ipc`.
