Astropysics

A python library for astronomy/astrophysics calculations and data analysis.

Web Page: http://packages.python.org/Astropysics/

License: Apache License v2.0

Note that Astropysics is now in "maintainence mode" only. That is, further development is not expected, as my efforts have shifted to the Astropy project. It is a much larger effort that contains most of the functionality in Astropysics and much more. Astropysics will remain so that code written against it will continue to function, though, and I will continue to accept bug fixes as necessary.

Installation

If you have numpy (http://numpy.scipy.org/) and scipy (http://www.scipy.org/) installed, just do:

python setup.py install

On some linux distributions, this may need to be:

sudo python setup.py install

Note also, if you are using pip to install, the latest version might not work do to some issues with SSL. In that case you may have luck using the latest dev version:

pip install git+https://github.com/eteq/astropysics.git

Documentation

Documentation (in the "docs" directory) is meant to be used with sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org). Typical usage is:

python setup.py build_sphinx

to build html documentation and place it in docs/_build/html. Note that this requires Sphinx >=1.0

Source Distribution Directory Structure

• astropysics/ - source code for all astropysics modules
• docs/ - Sphinx documentation and example code
• logo/ - astropysics logo in various forms
• licenses/ - copyright/license notices for all open source code
• scripts/ - command-line scripts installed with astropysics
• tests/ - unit tests (for use with Nose) and algorithmic experiments (Note unit tests require networkx and pymodelfit to run).