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@@ -0,0 +1 @@ +pyvisa-py is written and maintained by Hernan E. Grecco <hernan.grecco@gmail.com>. @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +PyVISA-py Changelog +=================== + + +0.1 (unreleased) +---------------- + +- Nothing changed yet. @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +The MIT License + +Copyright (c) 2014 PyVISA-py Authors and contributors. See AUTHORS + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of +this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in +the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to +use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies +of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do +so, subject to the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all +copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR +IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, +FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE +AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER +LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, +OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE +SOFTWARE. diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90e603f --- /dev/null +++ b/MANIFEST.in @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +include README AUTHORS CHANGES LICENSE +recursive-include pyvisa-alt * +global-exclude *.pyc *~ .DS_Store *__pycache__* *.pyo @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +PyVISA-py +========= + +A PyVISA backend that implements a large part of the "Virtual Instrument Software +Architecture" (VISA_) in pure Python (with the help of some nice cross platform +libraries python packages!). + + +Description +----------- + +PyVISA started as wrapper for the NI-VISA library and therefore you need to install +National Instruments VISA library in your system. This works most of the time, +for most people. But NI-VISA is a proprietary library that only works on certain +systems. That is when PyVISA-py jumps in. + +Starting form version 1.6, PyVISA allows to use different backends. These backends can be +dinamically loaded. PyVISA-py is one of such backends. It implements most of the methods +for Messge Based communication (Serial/USB/GPIB/Ethernet) using Python and some well developed, +easy to deploy and cross platform libraries + +.. _VISA: http://www.ivifoundation.org/Downloads/Specifications.htm + + +VISA and Python +--------------- + +Python has a couple of features that make it very interesting for measurement controlling: + +- Python is an easy-to-learn scripting language with short development cycles. +- It represents a high abstraction level [2], which perfectly blends with the abstraction + level of measurement programs. +- It has a very rich set of native libraries, including numerical and plotting modules for + data analysis and visualisation. +- A large set of books (in many languages) and on-line publications is available. + + +Requirements +------------ + +- Python (tested with 2.6 and 2.7, 3.2+) +- PyVISA 1.6+ + +Optionally +- PySerial (to interface with Serial instruments) +- PyUSB (to interface with USB instruments) +- linux-gpib (to interface with gpib instruments, only on linux) + + +Installation +-------------- + +Using pip: + + $ pip install pyvisa-py + + + +Documentation +-------------- + +The documentation can be read online at https://pyvisa-py.readthedocs.org |