Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: intersystems-iris
Version: 1.0.0
Summary: Compatibility shim: import intersystems_iris resolves to the iris package from intersystems-irispython
Author-email: InterSystems Community <grants@intersystems.com>
License: MIT
Project-URL: Homepage, https://www.intersystems.com/
Project-URL: Documentation, https://docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=PAGE_python_native
Project-URL: Source, https://github.com/intersystems-community/intersystems-iris
Project-URL: Bug Tracker, https://github.com/intersystems-community/intersystems-iris/issues
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Requires-Python: >=3.8
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
Requires-Dist: intersystems-irispython>=5.3.0

# intersystems-iris

`intersystems-iris` is a compatibility shim for the `intersystems_iris` import name.

## The problem

The InterSystems IRIS Python client is distributed as `intersystems-irispython` but imported as `iris`. Some packages (including older versions of `iris-vector-graph`) import it as `intersystems_iris`. This package makes that work.

```python
import intersystems_iris          # same as: import iris
intersystems_iris.connect(...)    # works
intersystems_iris.createIRIS(...) # works
intersystems_iris.dbapi           # works
```

## For new code

Use `import iris` directly. This shim exists for compatibility only.

```python
import iris
conn = iris.connect("iris://_SYSTEM:SYS@localhost:1972/USER")
```

## Install

```bash
pip install intersystems-iris
```

This pulls in `intersystems-irispython` as a dependency automatically.
