silx 0.1.0

Software library for X-Ray data analysis

The silx project aims at providing a collection of Python packages to support the development of data assessment, reduction and analysis applications at synchrotron radiation facilities. It aims at providing reading/writing different file formats, data reduction routines and a set of Qt widgets to browse and visualize data.

The current version provides reading SPEC file format, histogramming, curves and image plot widget with a set of associated tools (See changelog file).

Installation

To install silx, run:

pip install silx

To install silx locally, run:

pip install silx --user

Dependencies

• Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5.

• numpy

• h5py

The GUI widgets of the silx package depends on the following extra packages:

• A Qt binding: PyQt5, PyQt4 or PySide

• matplotlib

Documentation

To build the documentation from the source (requires Sphinx), run:

python setup.py build build_doc

Testing

To run the tests, from the source directory, run:

python run_tests.py

License

The source code of silx is licensed under the MIT and LGPL licenses. See the copyright file for details.