Installation

Caxton requires Python 3.11 or newer and ships as a single distribution. XlsxWriter and OpenPyXL are base runtime dependencies, so no extra is needed to render or inspect XLSX files.

uvpip

uv add caxton

pip install caxton

Optional extras

Extra	Installs	Use it for
hypothesis	hypothesis	The property-based strategies in caxton.testing.strategies.

uv add "caxton[hypothesis]"

Verify the installation

import caxton

print(caxton.__version__)

Supported versions

Caxton is tested on CPython 3.11, 3.12, 3.13 and 3.14 across Linux, macOS and Windows, using both the built wheel and the source distribution.

Working on Caxton itself

Clone the repository and create the locked development environment with uv:

git clone https://github.com/dzhalaevd/caxton.git
cd caxton
uv sync

See Contributing for the check commands.