Getting Started with pySPEDAS

Welcome to pySPEDAS

pySPEDAS is the SPEDAS software in the python programming language. It is currently in development and it does not contain as many functions as the IDL SPEDAS software.

Examples and tutorials can be found in the companion projects: pyspedas_examples mms_examples

pySPEDAS releases

• github source code
• pip release
• conda release

Install pySPEDAS

An easy way to install pyspedas is to install the latest Anaconda distribution:

• https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/

Then, open the anaconda prompt and type:

conda install -c spedas pyspedas

This will install all required files. To test the installation, you can open a command prompt, type 'python' to start the python interpreter and then type:

import pyspedas
pyspedas.version()

The installed version of pyspedas should be printed.

You can also install pyspedas using pip:

pip install pyspedas

Examples

There are two projects that contain examples of using pyspedas:

• github source code for mms-examples
• github source code for pyspedas_examples

These can be installed using pip:

pip install pyspedas_examples

Comparison of pySPEDAS to SPEDAS

Some examples that demonstrate how to achieve the same results using either IDL SPEDAS or python pySPEDAS.

• Smooth function
• Spectrogram
• Wavelet
• Cotrans