Package for Building Python Extensions to Spotfire®

This package provides functions used for integrating Python with Spotfire, including:

• reading and writing files in Spotfire Binary Data Format (SBDF)
• building Spotfire Packages (SPKs) for distributing Python interpreters and custom packages with Spotfire
• internal handler code for executing Data Functions from Spotfire

Installation

pip install spotfire

Additionally, extras may be specified (as spotfire[extra] instead of simply spotfire) to include the required Python packages to support optional functionality:

Extra	Functionality
spotfire[geo]	Geographic data processing
spotfire[plot]	Plotting support with all supported packages
spotfire[plot-matplotlib]	Plotting support using just matplotlib
spotfire[plot-pil]	Plotting support using just Pillow
spotfire[plot-seaborn]	Plotting support using just seaborn
spotfire[polars]	Polars DataFrame support
spotfire[dev,lint]	Internal development

Once installed, export_data() accepts polars.DataFrame and polars.Series directly, and import_data() can return a polars.DataFrame via output_format="polars".

Note for Spotfire data functions: Spotfire's bundled Python interpreter does not include Polars. To use Polars inside a data function, configure Spotfire to use a custom Python environment that has polars installed. Polars is a large binary package (~44 MB), so Spotfire Packages (SPKs) that bundle it will be significantly larger than typical packages.

License

BSD-type 3-Clause License. See the file LICENSE included in the package.