bapsf-motion 2026.6.0

Package for controlling motion devices in a BaPSF DAQ system

bapsf_motion

bapsf_motion is a module developed for the Basic Plasma Facility (BaPSF) at the University of California, Los Angeles to integrate with its DAQ system and control motion devices, such as probe drives.

GUI Development

This package uses PySide6 to develop its GUI interface. In attempts to keep the code pythonic, we are using the feature from __feature__ import snake_case. This will allow us to write code like QMainWindow.set_window_title() instead of QMainWindow.setWindowTitle(). To get a module set up the __feature__ import must occur after the first PySide6 import, for example:

from PySide6.QtWidgets import QMainWindow

from __feature__ import snake_case  # noqa

Note the # noqa, this is needed to prevent linters and code inspection from complaining about the import order.

When this is first implement your linters and code inspection will likely complain with unresolved instances. This is because the Python stub files (i.e. .pyi files) were generated without this feature enabled. To update your stub files follow the procedure below:

1. Determine where PySide6 is installed. This can be done by executing python -m pip show pyside6 in the command prompt. This show be the site-packages directory for you Python distribution.

2. Navigate to the directory indicated by step 1.

3. Navigate into the PySide6/ directory.

4. Now execute the following command in your command prompt:

   pyside6-genpyi all --feature snake_case
   

   This will update all the stub files accordingly, and should only take a few seconds.