RobotPy subcommands

When you install RobotPy in your Python installation, it installs a package called robotpy-cli, which provides a robotpy command that can be used to perform tasks related to your robot and related code.

If you execute the command from the command line, it will show the various subcommands that are available:

Windows

py -3 -m robotpy

macOS

python3 -m robotpy

Linux

python3 -m robotpy

Note

If you don’t see a list of commands but either see a RobotPy logo or an error saying No module named robotpy.__main__; 'robotpy' is a package and cannot be directly executed, you should uninstall the robotpy module and then reinstall it via pip.

This only affects users who upgraded from pre-2024 or the 2024 beta.

You can pass the --help argument to see more information about the subcommand. For example, to see help for the sim command you can do the following:

Windows

py -3 -m robotpy sim --help

macOS

python3 -m robotpy sim --help

Linux

python3 -m robotpy sim --help

This page has more detailed documentation for some of the subcommands:

• Deploy Python program to roboRIO