Installation#
argopy >= 1.3 requires Python 3.11
Because of a bug in xarray versions from 2024.3.0 to 2025.6.1 and since xarray >= 2025.7.0 requires python >= 3.11: argopy >= 1.3 requires Python 3.11.
Instructions#
Install the last release with conda:
conda install -c conda-forge argopy
or pip:
pip install argopy
you can also work with the ongoing development version:
pip install git+http://github.com/euroargodev/argopy.git@master
Required dependencies#
argopy >= 1.3 requires Python 3.11
xarray >= 2025.7.0, <=2025.9.0
scipy
numpy
erddapy
netCDF4
h5netcdf
fsspec >= 2025.5.1
toolz
requests
aiohttp <= 3.12.15
decorator
packaging
Requirement dependencies details can be found here.
The argopy software is continuously tested under latest OS (Linux, Mac OS and Windows) and with python versions 3.11 and 3.12.
Optional dependencies#
For a complete argopy experience, you may also consider to install the following packages:
Utilities
gsw
pyco2sys
tqdm
Performances
dask
distributed
joblib
numba
pyarrow
Files handling
boto3 / s3fs
zarr
numcodecs
kerchunk
Visualisation
cartopy
IPython
ipykernel
ipywidgets
matplotlib
pyproj
seaborn
Environments#
You can simply use one of the argopy testing conda environments listed here: euroargodev/argopy
You can also look at this section of the documentation Virtual environment