nova.instrumentation

Supporting code for Digital Instrumentation class at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Installation

Manual

1. Download and install the required applications:

• Anaconda (choose python 3);
• Supporting code.

2. Complete the installation

Copy the support code to C:\Users\[username]\Anaconda\Lib\ directory and rename to guarantee that the directory is called novainstrumentation.

In macOS: \Users\[username]\Anaconda\Lib\.

Note: users with spaces and special characters will not be able to install. We suggest creating a new user in the system.

3. Check if the module was successfully installed

Make sure that the following code line works in ipython:

  import novainstrumentation

If no error appears you have successfully installed the needed tools for a scientific python environment.

4. Notes

If introlab.py raises ImportError: No module named '_tkinter', please install the python3-tk package while on ubuntu, run the following code in terminal:

sudo apt-get install python3-tk