Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: pxsas
Version: 1.0
Summary: Python wrapper for the XMM-Newton Science Analysis System (SAS)
Home-page: https://github.com/ruizca/pxsas
Author: Angel Ruiz
Author-email: angel.ruizca@gmail.com
License: UNKNOWN
Description: pxsas
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        ``pxsas`` is a simple Python 3 wrapper for the 
        XMM-*Newton* Science Analysis System (`SAS`_). 
        
        Dependencies
        ------------
        
        ``pxsas`` needs a working SAS `installation`_. SAS has to be initialized
        before importing ``pxsas`` into your python environment.
        
        *A note about SAS 17.0.0 and above*
        
        Starting with version 17.0.0, the SAS installation procedure creates its own python 
        environment for running some tasks. This is the system's default python environment 
        after the initialization of SAS. You can install pysas in this environment, but this
        is extremely NOT recomended. Instead, you can redefine your PATH after SAS
        initialization like this (in bash)::
        
            export PATH="/path/to/my/python:$PATH"
        
        Installation
        ------------
        
        ``pxsas`` can be easily installed using ``pip``::
        
            pip install pxsas
        
        Example
        -------
        A simple example of using ``pxsas``::
        
            import os
            import pxsas
        
            # Show SAS version used by pxsas
            pxsas.sasversion(full=True)
        
            # Show the version of the task 'evselect'
            pxsas.run("evselect", "-v")
        
            # Create a Calibration Index File for a given observation
            os.environ["SAS_ODF"] = "/path/to/observation/ODF"
            pxsas.run("cifbuild", calindexset="ccf.cif")
        
        The output messages from the SAS tasks are captured through the python logging system. 
        If the task runs succesfully, ``pxsas.run`` returns the output text as a string. If an
        error happens during execution, it returns ``None``.
        
        
        
        .. _SAS: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/what-is-sas
        .. _installation: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/sas-installation
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: Astronomy
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
Requires-Python: >=3.6
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