pydplace 2.1.0

programmatic access to D-PLACE/dplace-data

pydplace

A Python library to access D-PLACE data.

To install pydplace you need a python installation on your system, running python 2.7 or >3.4. Run

pip install pydplace

to install the requirements, pydplace and the command line interface dplace.

pydplace is built to access data in a local clone or export of D-PLACE's data repository https://github.com/D-PLACE/dplace-data

CLI

Command line functionality is implemented via sub-commands of dplace. The list of available sub-commands can be inspected running

$ dplace --help
usage: deplace [-h] [--verbosity VERBOSITY] [--log-level LOG_LEVEL]
                 [--repos REPOS]
                 command ...
...

Use 'dplace help <cmd>' to get help about individual commands.

Python API

D-PLACE data can also be accessed programmatically. All functionality is mediated through an instance of pydplace.api.Repos, e.g.

>>> from pydplace.api import Repos
>>> api = Repos('.')