fslpy 1.7.1

FSL Python library

fslpy
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The ``fslpy`` project is a `FSL <http://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki/>`_
programming library written in Python. It is used by `FSLeyes
<https://git.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fsleyes/fsleyes/>`_.


Installation
------------


Install ``fslpy`` and its core dependencies via pip::

pip install fslpy


Dependencies
------------


All of the core dependencies of ``fslpy`` are listed in the `requirements.txt
<requirements.txt>`_ file.

Some extra dependencies are listed in `requirements.txt
<requirements-extra.txt>`_ which provide addditional functionality:

- ``wxPython``: The `fsl.utils.idle <fsl/utils/idle.py>`_ module has
functionality to schedule functions on the ``wx`` idle loop.

- ``indexed_gzip``: The `fsl.data.image.Image <fsl/data/image.py>`_ class
can use ``indexed_gzip`` to keep large compressed images on disk instead
of decompressing and loading them into memory..

- ``trimesh``/``rtree``: The `fsl.data.mesh.TriangleMesh <fsl/data/mesh.py>`_
class has some methods which use ``trimesh`` to perform geometric queries
on the mesh.



To install these additional dependencies, you first need to install wxPython,
which is still in pre-relaes.

- **macOS**: ``pip install --pre wxPython``
- **Linux** (change the URL for your specific platform): ``pip install --only-binary wxpython -f https://extras.wxpython.org/wxPython4/extras/linux/gtk2/ubuntu-16.04/ wxpython``


The ``rtree`` library also assumes that ``libspatialindex`` is installed on
your system.


Once wxPython has been installed, you can simply type the following to install
the rest of the extra dependencies::

pip install fslpy[extras]


Documentation
-------------

``fslpy`` is documented using `sphinx <http://http://sphinx-doc.org/>`_. You
can build the API documentation by running::

python setup.py doc

The HTML documentation will be generated and saved in the ``doc/html/``
directory.


If you are interested in contributing to ``fslpy``, check out the
`contributing guide <doc/contributing.rst>`_.


Tests
-----

Run the test suite via::

python setup.py test

A test report will be generated at ``report.html``, and a code coverage report
will be generated in ``htmlcov/``.


Credits
-------


The `fsl.data.dicom <fsl/data/dicom/>`_ module is little more than a thin
wrapper around Chris Rorden's `dcm2niix
<https://github.com/rordenlab/dcm2niix>`_ program.


The `example.mgz <tests/testdata/example.mgz>`_ file, used for testing,
originates from the ``nibabel`` test data set.