pySpextool

Python code to reduce data obtained with the SpeX spectrograph.

Installation Instructions

1. Install miniconda, if you don't have it already.

2. Clone the pyspextool repository to your local computer

   git clone https://github.com/pyspextool/pyspextool.git
   

3. Navigate into the pyspextool/ directory

   cd pyspextool/
   

4. Make a pyspextool_3.11 conda environment and install necessary dependencies, including Python 3.11.

   conda env create -f environment.yml
   

5. Activate the new environment

   conda activate pyspextool_3.11
   

6. Install the pyspextool package

   pip install -e ./
   

7. Optional - Install other Python packages

   If you want to use Jupyter notebooks or other Python tools with pyspextool, you need to install them in the new environment. For example:

   pip install jupyterlab
   

Developer Instructions

If you plan to contribute code to pyspextool, you'll need pytest and the test data in order to run the tests.

8. Install pytest

   pip install pytest
   

9. Setup and download the test_data/ submodule

   git submodule update --init --recursive