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Welcome to the DaViT-py wiki!

This is very-very-very-far from distribution-ready...!

Install

A simple install script for Ubuntu and MacOS is provided to install all the required packages. Then just clone this repository wherever you want it, edit your environment variables and start contributing!

Required modules

• IPython: this is an interactive interface making visualization and other simple operations much easier. I recommend watching the following video to get to know this fundamental layer to python (also helps getting to know python syntax and simple commands)

• NumPy: provides most of the data manipulation functions, including arrays, data files I/O...

• SciPy: provides more advanced data analysis functions, such as fitting routines, fft...

• Matplotlib: plotting library designed to reproduce matlab-like plots (includes mapping tools, see basemap)

Other useful module(s)

• h5py: HDF5 file I/O

Other python project(s) we may want to look into...

• SpacePy (LANL)

• AstroPy

Useful tutorials

• Git cheatsheet

• Python Boot Camp

• Python tips, tricks and hacks

• SciPy lecture notes

• A quick video tutorial about h5py

• A video overview of SpacePy

• Python speed

For Windows users

• Python Extension Packages for Windows: provides unofficial 32- and 64-bit Windows binaries for many scientific open-source extension packages such as NumPy, SciPy, and Matplotlib.