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Converts SPEC data files and scans into NeXus HDF5 files

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spec2nexus
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Converts SPEC data files and scans into NeXus HDF5 files

:author: Pete R. Jemian
:email: prjemian@gmail.com
:copyright: 2014, Pete R. Jemian
:license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (see *LICENSE.txt*)
:URL: http://prjemian.github.io/spec2nexus
:git: https://github.com/prjemian/spec2nexus
:PyPI: https://pypi-hypernode.com/pypi/spec2nexus/
:Ohloh: http://ohloh.net/p/spec2nexus

Provides
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* **spec2nexus** : command-line tool to convert SPEC data files to NeXus HDF5
* **prjPySpec** : python binding to read SPEC [#]_ data files
* **eznx** : (Easy NeXus) supports writing NeXus [#]_ HDF5 [#]_ files using h5py [#]_

.. [#] http://certif.com
.. [#] http://nexusformat.org
.. [#] http://hdfgroup.org
.. [#] http://h5py.org

Installation
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Released versions of spec2nexus are available on `PyPI
<https://pypi-hypernode.com/pypi/spec2nexus/>`_. If you have the `Python Setup Tools
<https://pypi-hypernode.com/pypi/setuptools>`_ installed, then you can install
using either::

$ pip install spec2nexus

or::

$ easy_install spec2nexus

The latest development versions of spec2nexus can be downloaded from the
GitHub repository listed above::

$ git clone http://github.com/prjemian/spec2nexus.git

To install in the standard Python location::

$ cd spec2nexus
$ python setup.py install

To install in user's home directory::

$ python setup.py install --user

To install in an alternate location::

$ python setup.py install --prefix=/path/to/installation/dir

Required Libraries
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Library URL
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h5py http://www.h5py.org
numpy http://numpy.scipy.org/
======== =============================

How to use spec2nexus
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See the documentation (http://spec2nexus.github.io/spec2nexus)
for complete instructions.

simple use
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Convert all scans in a SPEC data file::

$ spec2nexus path/to/file/specfile.dat

Writes ``path/to/file/specfile.hdf5`` (note: will not
overwrite if the HDF5 exists, use the *-f* option
to force overwrite).

show installed version
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Verify the version of the installed spec2nexus::

$ spec2nexus -V
2014.03.02

Help on usage
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::

$ spec2nexus.py -h
usage: spec2nexus [-h] [-e HDF5_EXTENSION] [-f] [-V] [-s SCAN_LIST] [-t]
[-q | -v]
infile [infile ...]

spec2nexus: Convert SPEC data file into a NeXus HDF5 file.

...

..
positional arguments:
infile SPEC data file name(s)

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-e HDF5_EXTENSION, --hdf5-extension HDF5_EXTENSION
NeXus HDF5 output file extension, default = .hdf5
-f, --force-overwrite
overwrite output file if it exists
-V, --version show program's version number and exit
-s SCAN_LIST, --scan SCAN_LIST
specify which scans to save, such as: -s all or -s 1
or -s 1,2,3-5 (no spaces!), default = all
-q, --quiet suppress all program output (except errors), do not
use with -v option
-v, --verbose print more program output, do not use with -q option

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