Installation

Download Options

Download the latest version from http://galpak3d.univ-lyon1.fr/downloads.html.

Clone the repository using git (up coming)

Download from the Astro Common Library (up coming)

If you want to contribute, write to Nicolas Bouché.

Setup

  • Since v1.30, simply do pip install galpak

If you download the latest from http://galpak3d.univ-lyon1.fr/downloads.html,

  • unpack and run pip install .

  • Add the galpak parent directory to your PYTHONPATH. (Not recommanded)

Dependencies

The galpak module has been developed for Python >3 and

has been tested with Python 3.5 & 3.7

The following are mandatory python modules that galpak depends upon :

  • numpy>=1.14

  • scipy

  • astropy>=2.0

  • matplotlib>=2.0

pyfits and asciitable are now obsolete since v1.8.7

The following are optional python modules that improves galpak performances :

The following are optional python modules that improves galpak functionalities :

Development environment

This module also depends on unittest and nose for unit-testing. The benchmark module is used in benchmarking. The sphinx module is used to generate this documentation.