Welcome to pyspec’s documentation!

pyspec is a set of python routines for data analysis of x-ray scattering experiments. It started out as a data class for the SPEC x-ray diffractometer control program (http://www.certif.com/) but since then has morphed into a suite of python classes for data analysis. This has lead to the “bacronym” for pyspec being “python routines for x-ray spectra analysis”.

Contents:

• An introduction to pyspec
• Installation of pyspec
  • Installing using easy_install
  • Installing from SVN server
• Module to process SPEC data files
  • Introduction
  • Plotting Data
  • Obtaining Information on Data
  • Spec Data File Class
  • Spec Scan Class
    • Defining Extensions to the Spec Data Routines
• Fitting of Experimental Data
  • Introduction
  • The fit Class
    • Fitting user supplied data
    • Fitting data plotted using matplotlib
  • Standard Fit Functions
  • User Defined Functions
• CCD (2D Data) Processing and Transformation
  • Introduction to CCD Package
    • Reading and compiling images
    • Processing Images
    • Plotting Images
    • Important note on indexing
  • File Processing Routines
    • Introduction
    • Using the FileProcessor
    • FileProcessor Documentation
  • Image Processing Routines
    • Introduction
  • CCD Image Format Routines
    • Introduction
    • Princeton SPE Files
  • ctrans - C Routines for fast CCD Analysis
  • Routines to plot 3D data
  • Calculating the standard error on the fly
• Diffractometer
  • Lab Frame
  • Rotations and Setting Angles
  • Rotation matrcies
  • Calculation of
  • Diffractometer Class
• Helpful Utilities
• Example code using pyspec

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page