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Astrophysics utilities for python

Home Page:http://packages.python.org/Astropysics/

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Astropysics

A python library for astronomy/astrophysics calculations and data analysis.

Web Page: http://packages.python.org/Astropysics/

License: Apache License v2.0

Installation

If you have numpy (http://numpy.scipy.org/) and scipy (http://www.scipy.org/) installed, just do:

python setup.py install

On some linux distributions, this may need to be:

sudo python setup.py install

Documentation

Documentation (in the "docs" directory) is meant to be used with sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org). Typical usage is:

python setup.py build_sphinx

to build html documentation and place it in docs/_build/html. Note that this requires Sphinx >=1.0

Source Distribution Directory Structure

  • astropysics/ - source code for all astropysics modules
  • docs/ - Sphinx documentation and example code
  • logo/ - astropysics logo in various forms
  • licenses/ - copyright/license notices for all open source code
  • scripts/ - command-line scripts installed with astropysics
  • tests/ - unit tests (for use with Nose) and algorithmic experiments (Note unit tests require networkx and pymodelfit to run).

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Astrophysics utilities for python

http://packages.python.org/Astropysics/