QuTiP Developers’ Guide

Welcome to the developers’ guide to working on all first-party aspects of QuTiP, the Quantum Toolbox in Python. There are three primary strands to QuTiP development, which are documented separately in the following sections.

• QuTiP Package
  • Creating a Development Environment
    • Requirements
    • Creating a Local Copy
    • Building From Source
    • Contributing Code
    • Pull Requests
    • Code Style
  • Quantum Objects
    • Data Store
    • Auxiliary Information
    • Methods
    • Derived and Related Types
  • Data Layer
    • Terminology
    • Motivation
    • Converting Between Types: to
    • Dispatch Operations: Dispatcher
    • Type Descriptions
• Documentation
• Example Notebooks