NeXpy provides a high-level python interface to NeXus data contained within a simple GUI. It is designed to provide an intuitive interactive toolbox allowing users both to access existing NeXus files and to create new NeXus-conforming data structures without expert knowledge of the file format.
Released versions of NeXpy can be installed using either
$ pip install nexpy
or
$ easy_install nexpy
The source code can be downloaded from the NeXpy Git repository:
$ git clone http://github.com/nexpy/nexpy.git
To install in the standard Python location:
$ python setup.py install
To install in an alternate location:
$ python setup.py install --prefix=/path/to/installation/dir
The following libraries are used by the full installation of NeXpy. There is more details of the nature of these dependencies in the NeXpy documentation.
- h5py http://www.h5py.org
- numpy,scipy http://numpy.scipy.org
- iPython v1.1.0 http://ipython.org/
- PySide v1.1.0 http://www.pyside.org/
- matplotlib v1.1.0 http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net (GUI only)
- lmfit http://newville.github.io/lmfit-py (Fitting only)
- pycbf http://www.bernstein-plus-sons.com/software/CBF/ (CBF reader only)
- spec2nexus http://spec2nexus.readthedocs.org (SPEC reader only)
The following environment variable may need to be set PYTHONPATH --> paths to ipython,numpy,scipy,matplotlib if installed in a nonstandard place
All of the above are included in the Enthought Python Distribution v7.3.
To run from the installed location, add the $prefix/bin directory to your path (only if you installed outside the python installation), and then run:
nexpy
Consult the NeXpy documentation for details of both the Python command-line API and how to use the NeXpy GUI. If you have any general questions concerning the use of NeXpy, please address them to the NeXus Mailing List. If you discover any bugs, please submit a Github issue, preferably with relevant tracebacks.