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Welcome to pyzk's documentation!
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pyzk is unofficial library for zksoftware the fingerprint attendance machine. It's easy to use and no need to understand how to communicate to device. Just create ZK instance and you will ready to use api.

Installation
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You can install from two different options

1. from pypi

  ``$ pip install pyzk``


2. from original repository

Go to https://github.com/fananimi/pyzk and clone the latest source code by using git, and then just execute the setup.py file.


 ``$ python setup.py install``


Basic Usage
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.. code-block:: python

    import zk
    from zk import const

    zk = zk.ZK(ip='192.168.1.201', port=4370, timeout=5)
    try:
        response = zk.connect()
        if response.get('status') is False:
            raise Exception(response.get('message'))

        # disable (lock) the device, make sure no activity when process run
        zk.disable_device()

        # Do another task here
        firmware = zk.get_firmware_version()
        print 'Firmware Version: : {}'.format(firmware.get('data'))
        users = zk.get_users()
        if users.get('status'):
            for user in users.get('data'):
                privilege = 'User'
                if user.privilege == const.USER_ADMIN:
                    privilege = 'Admin'

                print '- UID #{}'.format(user.uid)
                print '  Name       : {}'.format(user.name)
                print '  Privilege  : {}'.format(privilege)
                print '  Password   : {}'.format(user.password)
                print '  Group ID   : {}'.format(user.group_id)
                print '  User  ID   : {}'.format(user.user_id)

        # don't forget to re-enable device
        zk.enable_device()
    except Exception, e:
        print "Process terminate : {}".format(e)
    finally:
        if zk.is_connect:
            zk.disconnect()

Technical Documentation
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We open to everyone for contribute in this project. Please refer `Communication_protocol_manual_CMD.pdf <https://github.com/fananimi/pyzk/blob/master/docs/_static/Communication_protocol_manual_CMD.pdf>`_ before you starting write your code.

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Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`