PHIDIAS

PytHon Interactive Declarative Intelligent Agent System
by Prof. Santoro Corrado

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Table of Contents

1. Install
   • Pythonic Way for Linux-Windows-macOS
2. Usage

Install

First of all, you need to download this repository on your machine. You can download this repository as a zip file or use git clone command:

  git clone https://github.com/corradosantoro/phidias

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Pythonic Way for Linux-Windows-macOS

We are going to create a virtual environment to contains all the dependencies.

1. Install Python 3 on your system, at the time of writing it is recommended Python 3.9 or newer:

   • Linux (Debian-based):

     sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-venv

   • Linux (RHEL-based):

     sudo dnf install python3 python3-pip

   • Windows and macOS:

     Use the proper installer provided on the official Python website
     

2. Create a virtual environment, open a terminal inside the phidias folder and execute the following command:

    python -m venv ./venv
   

3. Activate the virtual environment:

   • Linux (bash shell) or macOS:

     source ./venv/bin/activate

   • Windows (cmd.exe):

     ./venv/Scripts/activate.bat

4. Install the dependencies using:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

5. Install the library using:

   python setup.py install
   

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Usage

Before running any script you need to activate the virtual environment containing the required dependencies:

• Linux (bash shell) or macOS:

  source ./venv/bin/activate

• Windows (cmd.exe):

  ./venv/Scripts/activate.bat

You can now run any provided sample, example:

python ./samples/factorial.py

The PHIDIAS shell will be displayed, you can type the following command:

eShell: main > fact(10)

The program will compute the factorial of 10 and will show:

the resuilting factorial is 3628800