pisces-db 0.2.2

A Practical Seismological Database Library in Python.

# Pisces

Pisces is a Python library that connects your geophysical analysis environment to a SQL database that uses the Center for Seismic Studies (CSS) 3.0 or NNSA KB Core table schema.

Documentation: <http://jkmacc-lanl.github.io/pisces>

Repository: <https://github.com/jkmacc-LANL/pisces>

## Features

• Import/export waveforms directly to/from your database.

• Build database queries using Python objects and methods

  ([SQLAlchemy](http:/www.sqlalchemy.org)), not by concatenating SQL strings.

• Integration with [ObsPy](http://www.obspy.org).

• Geographic filtering of results.

## Installation

Requires:

• ObsPy

• SQLAlchemy

• Click

• C compiler

Install from [PyPI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi):

` pip install pisces-db `

Install current master from GitHub:

` pip install git+https://github.com/jkmacc-LANL/pisces `

# Recent History

([full change log](CHANGELOG.md))

## 0.2.2

### Changes

• pisces.util.get_tables, pisces.util.make_tables, and pisces.util.get_or_create_tables are deprecated and will raise a warning.

• pisces.request.get_waveforms now has a tol keyword that will raise an exception if any returned waveform is not within tol seconds from the requested starttime/endtime.

• Added –bbfk flag to pisces sac2db, which uses the broadband f-k (BBFK) convention of reading x, y array offset distances in the USER 7, 8 SAC header variables and storing them Site.dnorth and Site.deast.

• Windows support! Thanks to @mitchburnett! e1 and convert C libraries now build (using MSVC).

• Automated testing on Mac OSX, Linux, and Windows 7, for Python 2.7 and 3.4, thanks to Travis CI and Appveyor.

• Require ObsPy > 1.0

### Bug fixes

• Fixed sac2db wfdisc.foff (issue #12) and wfdisc.dir (issue #11) handling.

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