# Introduction

pyrad3 is an implementation of a RADIUS client/server as described in RFC2865.
It takes care of all the details like building RADIUS packets, sending them and
decoding responses.

This is the successor of pyrad. It is written in python3 only (python3.7+) and
has an improved API.

## Requirements & Installation

pyrad requires Python 3.7 or later.

```cli
# Install from pypi
pip install pyrad3

# Install from the repository
git clone https://github.com/pyradius/pyrad3
pip install .

# Installing with poetry
git clone https://github.com/pyradius/pyrad3
poetry install --no-dev # for usage; without optional dev dependencies
poetry install # for development
```

## License

pyrad3 is distributed under the terms of both the MIT License and the Apache
License (Version 2.0).

See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) and [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT) for
details.