Getting Started with pySPEDAS

Welcome to pySPEDAS

pySPEDAS is the SPEDAS software in the python programming language. It is currently in development (beta).

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:

from pyspedas.examples.basic.ex_basic import ex_basic

ex_basic()

Some cdf files will be downloaded and a plot will appear.

Comparison of pySPEDAS vs SPEDAS

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

• Smooth function
• Spectrogram