spec2nexus 2021.1.1

Converts SPEC data files and scans into NeXus HDF5 files

Converts SPEC data files and scans into NeXus HDF5 files:

$ spec2nexus path/to/file/specfile.dat

Writes path/to/file/specfile.hdf5

• Conda install: conda install -c prjemian spec2nexus (alternate)

• Conda install: conda install -c aps-anl-tag spec2nexus (production)

• Conda install: conda install -c aps-anl-dev spec2nexus (development)

• Pip install: pip install spec2nexus

NOTE

spec2nexus will stop development for Python 2 by 2019-12-31. For more information, visit https://python3statement.org/.

Provides

• spec2nexus : command-line tool: Convert [SPEC](http://certif.com) data files to [NeXus](http://nexusformat.org) [HDF5](http://hdfgroup.org)

• extractSpecScan : command-line tool: Save columns from SPEC data file scan(s) to TSV files

• spec : library: python binding to read SPEC data files

• eznx : library: (Easy NeXus) supports writing NeXus HDF5 files using h5py

• specplot : command-line tool: plot a SPEC scan to an image file

• specplot_gallery : command-line tool: call specplot for all scans in a list of files, makes a web gallery

Package Information

• author: Pete R. Jemian

• email: <[e-mail]>

• copyright: 2014-2019, Pete R. Jemian

• license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (see [LICENSE.txt](http://spec2nexus.readthedocs.io/en/latest/license.html) file)

• URL: documentation: <http://spec2nexus.readthedocs.io>

• git: source: <https://github.com/prjemian/spec2nexus>

• PyPI: Distribution: <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/spec2nexus/>

• OpenHub: Compare open source software: <https://www.openhub.net/p/spec2nexus>

• Release Notes: <https://github.com/prjemian/spec2nexus/wiki/Release-Notes>

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