Download and install

There are nightly binary builds available. Those builds are not always as stable as the release, but they contain numerous bugfixes and performance improvements. Note that the OS X nightly builds (but not the release) are slightly miscompiled due to buildslave being old. Contributions are welcomed.

Here are the binaries for the current release — PyPy 2.2.1 — (what's new in PyPy 2.2.1? what's new in PyPy 2.2?) for x86 and ARM Linux, Mac OS/X, Windows and the older release — PyPy3 2.1 beta1 — (what's new in PyPy3 2.1 beta1?).

“JIT Compiler” version

These binaries include a Just-in-Time compiler. They only work on x86 CPUs that have the SSE2 instruction set (most of them do, nowadays), or on x86-64 CPUs. They also contain stackless extensions, like greenlets. (This is the official release 2.2.1; for the most up-to-date version see below.)

2.2.1

Note that Linux binaries are dynamically linked, as is usual, and thus might not be usable due to the sad story of linux binary compatibility. This means that Linux binaries are only usable on the distributions written next to them unless you're ready to hack your system by adding symlinks to the libraries it tries to open. In general, we recommend either building from source or downloading your PyPy from your release vendor. Ubuntu (PPA), Debian, Homebrew, MacPorts, Fedora, Gentoo and Arch are known to package PyPy, with various degrees of being up-to-date. You may have more chances trying out Squeaky's portable Linux binaries.

PyPy3 2.1 Beta 1

Note that Linux binaries are dynamically linked, as is usual, and thus might not be usable due to the sad story of linux binary compatibility. This means that Linux binaries are only usable on the distributions written next to them unless you're ready to hack your system by adding symlinks to the libraries it tries to open.

If your CPU is really old, it may not have SSE2. In this case, you need to translate yourself with the option --jit-backend=x86-without-sse2.

[1]: stating it again: the Linux binaries are provided for the distributions listed here. If your distribution is not exactly this one, it won't work, likely: pypy: error while loading shared libraries: …. Unless you want to hack a lot, try out the portable Linux binaries.

Other versions

The other versions of PyPy are:

  • The most up-to-date nightly build with a JIT, if the official release is too old for what you want to do. There are versions for different libc on this site too.
  • Sandboxing: A special safe version. Read the docs about sandboxing. (It is also possible to translate a version that includes both sandboxing and the JIT compiler, although as the JIT is relatively complicated, this reduces a bit the level of confidence we can put in the result.) Note that the sandboxed binary needs a full pypy checkout to work. Consult the sandbox docs for details. (These are old, PyPy 1.8.)

Installing

All binary versions are packaged in a tar.bz2 or zip file. When uncompressed, they run in-place. For now you can uncompress them either somewhere in your home directory or, say, in /opt, and if you want, put a symlink from somewhere like /usr/local/bin/pypy to /path/to/pypy-2.2.1/bin/pypy. Do not move or copy the executable pypy outside the tree – put a symlink to it, otherwise it will not find its libraries.

Building from source

  1. Get the source code. The following packages contain the source at the same revision as the above binaries:

    Or you can checkout the current trunk using Mercurial (the trunk usually works and is of course more up-to-date):

    hg clone https://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy

  2. Make sure you installed the dependencies. See the list here.

  3. Enter the goal directory:

    cd pypy/pypy/goal

  4. Run the rpython script. Here are the common combinations of options (works also with python instead of pypy):

    pypy ../../rpython/bin/rpython -Ojit targetpypystandalone           # get the JIT version
pypy ../../rpython/bin/rpython -O2 targetpypystandalone             # get the no-jit version
pypy ../../rpython/bin/rpython -O2 --sandbox targetpypystandalone   # get the sandbox version

  5. Enjoy Mandelbrot :-) It takes on the order of half an hour to finish the translation, and 2.x GB of RAM on a 32-bit system and 4.x GB on 64-bit systems. (Do not start a translation on a machine with insufficient RAM! It will just swap forever. See notes below in that case.)

Notes:

  • It is recommended to use PyPy to do translations, instead of using CPython, because it is twice as fast. You should just start by downloading an official release of PyPy (with the JIT). If you really have to use CPython then note that we are talking about CPython 2.5-2.7 here, not CPython 3.x.

  • If RAM usage is a problem (or if you are on Windows, because win32's limit is 2 GB unless you hack a lot), then you can (for now) tweak some parameters via environment variables and command-line options. The following command takes a bit more time, but finishes with only using 3.0 GB of RAM (on Linux 64-bit; probably not much more than 1.6 GB on 32-bit). It should be noted that it is less than with CPython.

    PYPY_GC_MAX_DELTA=200MB pypy --jit loop_longevity=300 ../../rpython/bin/rpython -Ojit targetpypystandalone

  • On Linux, because of asmgcroot, compiling the generated C files is delicate. It requires using gcc with no particularly fancy options. It does not work e.g. with clang, or if you pass uncommon options with the CFLAGS environment variable. If you insist on passing these options or using clang, then you can compile PyPy with the shadow stack option instead (for a small performance price in non-JITted code).

Packaging

Once PyPy is translated from source the binary package similar to those provided in the section Default (with a JIT Compiler) above could be easily created with package.py script as following:

cd ./pypy/pypy/tool/release/
python package.py ../../.. pypy-my-own-package-name

Checksums

Here are the checksums for each of the downloads (md5 and sha1):

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