pyslurm is the Python client library for the Slurm Workload Manager

Requirements

• Slurm 25.11.x — shared library and header files
• Python >= 3.6

Versioning

PySlurm uses the format X.Y.Z where X.Y tracks the Slurm major release and Z is PySlurm's own patch increment, reset to 0 on each new Slurm major release.

PySlurm	Slurm
25.11.x	25.11.x
24.05.x	24.05.x
23.11.x	23.11.x

Installation

PySlurm requires the Slurm development headers and shared library at build time.

Slurm header and library paths

If you have slurm-devel installed in the default paths, skip this section.

By default, PySlurm looks in:

• /usr/include — for Slurm header files (slurm/slurm.h)
• /usr/lib64 — for the Slurm shared library (libslurmfull.so)

If your Slurm installation is not in the default paths, set these before installing:

export SLURM_INCLUDE_DIR=/path/to/slurm/include
export SLURM_LIB_DIR=/path/to/slurm/lib

From PyPI

pip install pyslurm

From source

git clone https://github.com/PySlurm/pyslurm.git && cd pyslurm
scripts/build.sh

Use -j to build with multiple cores (or set PYSLURM_BUILD_JOBS):

scripts/build.sh -j4

Contributors

pyslurm is made by contributors like you.

Support

Feel free to ask questions in the GitHub Discussions

Found a bug or you are missing a feature? Feel free to open an Issue!