diffpy.utils documentation

diffpy.utils - Shared utilities for diffpy packages.

Software version 3.5.0.

Last updated October 27, 2024.

The diffpy.utils package provides general functions for extracting data from variously formatted text files as well as some PDF-specific functionality. These include wx GUI utilities used by the PDFgui program and an interpolation function based on the Whittaker-Shannon formula for resampling a bandlimited PDF or other profile function.

Click here for a full list of utilities offered by diffpy.utils.

Examples

Illustrations of when and how one would use various diffpy.utils functions.

• File Data Extraction

• Resampling and Data Reconstruction

• Load and Manage User and Package Information

Authors

diffpy.utils is developed by members of the Billinge Group at Columbia University and at Brookhaven National Laboratory including Pavol Juhás, Christopher L. Farrow, the Billinge Group and its community contributors.

For a detailed list of contributors see https://github.com/diffpy/diffpy.utils/graphs/contributors.

Installation

See the README file included with the distribution.

Table of contents

• License
• Release Notes
• Utilities
• Examples
  • Parsers Example
  • Resampling Example
  • Tools Example
• Package API
  • diffpy.utils.parsers package
  • diffpy.utils.wx package
  • diffpy.utils.scattering_objects package

Indices

• Index

• Search Page