General concept
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pyCMBS consists of two parts

1. core part: provides a core library for data analysis and plotting.  This can be used to write powerful data analysis scripts. 
2. benchmarking framework: easy and efficient framework for benchmarking multimodel output.

Coding principles
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pyCMBS is written purely in Python (2.7). The coding is based largely on the concept of the test driven development. 
The code has the following characteristics

* thorough testing using unittests
* readable python code, following PEP8 convention
* object oriented programming, flexibility and modularity
* pyCMBS is an open source project and is hosted on github_ 


.. _github: https://github.com/pygeo/pycmbs