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 :

• pyfftw : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyFFTW

• bottleneck : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Bottleneck/

The following are optional python modules that improves galpak functionalities :

• corner : https://pypi.python.org/pypi/corner

• emcee : https://pypi.org/project/emcee/ (>3.0 in python>3.5)

• pymultinest: http://johannesbuchner.github.io/PyMultiNest/

• mpdaf : http://mpdaf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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.