Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: pyinstruments
Version: 0.1.17
Summary: Control of data acquisition with remote instruments using 
    (IVI-)dotnet, (IVI-)COM, Visa, and serial protocols.
    python dotnet and/or comtypes should be installed
Home-page: https://github.com/SamuelDeleglise/pyinstruments
Author: Samuel Deleglise
Author-email: samuel.deleglise@gmail.com
License: BSD
Description: 
        =============================================
        pyinstruments: data acquisition toolkit
        =============================================
        
        *program less and do more science... better*
        
        
        What is it
        ==========
        
        **pyinstruments** is a Python package to control/get data from measurement and
        automation devices. Control of the remote instruments can be done via one of 
        the following protocols:
          
          - Visa
          - pythondotnet
          - comtypes
          - serial
        
        The syntax of the higher level functions follows the IVI (Interchangeable Virtual Instruments)
        guidelines. This allows:
        
          1/. a lower level layer fully transparent for the user.
          2/. **zero** extra work to interface an instrument for which an IVI driver is provided.
        
        pyinstruments is composed of two **independant** packages (can be run on 2 remote computers!).
        
          - pyhardware for the hardware communication
          - curvefinder to display in quasi real-time the curves acquired.
        
        In this way, in the case of scripted data-acquisition, the process is not affected 
        at all by the plotting and user interactions.
        
        
        Main Features
        =============
        
        The curves are stored in a (django-abstracted) database with all necessary metadata 
        (bandwidth, averaging...) together with a list of user-defined tags and comment. 
        The curvefinder module allows monitoring new incoming curves, as well as querying
        the database for old curve by date, tags...
        
        For simple tasks, the hardware module also has a simple Graphical User Interface
        to quickly get a curve from an instrument...
        
        Note: the hardware package can also be used independantly of the other modules.
        
        
        Dependencies
        ============
        
          - `pythondotnet`:`The hardware package requires windows OS to interface instruments via
        the dotnet protocol. The plotting one could run under any OS. Builds for windows
        can be found at <http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pythonnet>
          - `Pandas <http://pandas.pydata.org/>`__ 0.10.1 or higher
          - `PyQt4
          - `guidata
          - `guiqwt
          - `django __ 1.5 or higher
        
        
        Try it out!
        ===========
        
        The installation is single click (since v 0.1.15), desktop icons are created 
        to launch both graphical user interfaces.
        
        The project is hosted on GitHub, and still in a starting phase, contributions
        are warmly welcome!
        
        <https://github.com/SamuelDeleglise/pyinstruments>
Keywords: instruments data-acquisition IVI interface
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Human Machine Interfaces
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
