Software written in Python.
Mailcap files, defined in RFC 1524, allow you to tell you mail clients, web browsers, and other programs how you want to view and edit various MIME types. Since interaction with your mailcap files often occurs deep within the bowels of your program, I've written up a very simple Python script to test your mailcap entries: mailcap-test.py. Enjoy!
In the course of my research, I've spend a good deal of time developing clean, Python interfaces to much of our lab equipment. I also tend to have strong opinions on the One True Way® to solve a problem. This means that I occasionaly end up writing script to run other people's experiment, especially when they don't take all that much time to write.
I wrote slow_bend
for Liming Zhao, who was a postdoc in our lab
from 2008 to 2010. Liming coated one side of an AFM cantilever with a
film of cellulose and used slow bend.py (version 0.2) to monitor
the cantilever deflection as he flushed in different buffers
(paper). Unfortunately, the paper claims the data aquisition was
carried out in LabView.
slow_bend
is not a complicated program; it polls analog input
channels using pycomedi (and optionally reads temperatures using
backends from pypid). The polling continues until slow_bend
recieves a KeyboardInterrupt.
$ slow_bend.py --version
0.4
$ slow_bend.py 0 3
#time (second) chan 0 (bit) chan 0 (volt) chan 3 (bit) chan 3 (volt)
1.81198e-05 34727 0.598001 39679 2.10925
4.00409 34956 0.667887 38033 1.60693
8.00408 35074 0.703899 36780 1.22454
12.0041 35041 0.693828 35814 0.929732
16.0041 34917 0.655985 35044 0.694743
^C
Available in a git repository.
Repository: cookbook
Author: W. Trevor King
I've been running a home-rolled recipe webapp for a year now, and it
worked fairly well in a bare-bones sort of way. However, I recently
had to make some changes to my personal website (since EveryDNS and
aparently most other free DNS providers were bought by Dyn), which
prompted me to translate cookbook
into a Django app. Thanks to
the wonders of Django, Grappelli, and django-taggit, the code
is now leaner, meaner, and prettier!
See the README for details.
Available in a git repository.
Repository: h5config
Author: W. Trevor King
Since the number of packages mooching off pypiezo's configuration scheme was growing, I've split it out into it's own package. Now there's a general package for all your HDF5-based configuration needs.
The README
is posted on the PyPI page.
Available in a git repository.
Repository: pypid
Author: W. Trevor King
I've just finished rewriting my PID temperature control package in pure-Python, and it's now clean enough to go up on PyPI. Features:
- Backend-agnostic architecture. I've written a first-order process with dead time (FOPDT) test backend and a pymodbus-based backend for our Melcor MTCA controller, but it should be easy to plug in your own custom backend.
- The general PID controller will automatically tune your backend using any of a variety of tuning rules.
The README
is posted on the PyPI page.
Available in a git repository.
Repository: insider
Author: W. Trevor King
Insider is a little Django app I wrote to help my brother, Garrett, track insider trading with a simple, familiar web interface. It's a pretty simple app, partly thanks to Bradley Ayers' django-tables2, which does the table formatting. Just goes to show that a good scripting language and framework make developing simple apps a breeze!
The README
is posted on the PyPI page.
pyproj is a Python wrapper around PROJ.4. Here's a quick walkthrough.
Initialize a geodetic converter:
>>> from pyproj import Geod
>>> g = Geod(ellps='clrk66')
where ellps='clrk66'
selects Clarke's 1866 reference
ellipsoid. help(Geod.__new__)
gives a list of possible
ellipsoids.
Calculate the distance between two points, as well as the local heading, try
>>> lat1,lng1 = (40.7143528, -74.0059731) # New York, NY
>>> lat2,lng2 = (49.261226, -123.1139268) # Vancouver, Canada
>>> az12,az21,dist = g.inv(lng1,lat1,lng2,lat2)
>>> az12,az21,dist
(-59.10918706123901, 84.99453463527395, 3914198.2912370963)
which gives forward and back azimuths as well as the geodesic distance in meters. Not that longitude comes before latitude in the these pyproj argument lists.
Calculate the terminus of a geodesic from an initial point, azimuth, and distance with:
>>> lng3,lat3,az3 = g.fwd(lng1,lat1,az12, dist)
>>> lat3,lng3,az3
(49.26122600306212, -123.11392684861474, 84.99453467574762)
Plan your trip with:
>>> pts = g.npts(lng1,lat1,lng2,lat2,npts=5)
>>> pts.insert(0, (lng1, lat1))
>>> pts.append((lng2, lat2))
>>> import numpy
>>> npts = numpy.array(pts)
>>> npts
array([[ -74.0059731 , 40.7143528 ],
[ -80.93566289, 43.52686057],
[ -88.48167748, 45.87969433],
[ -96.61187851, 47.6930911 ],
[-105.22271807, 48.89347605],
[-114.13503215, 49.42510006],
[-123.1139268 , 49.261226 ]])
To plot the above New York to Vancouver route on a flat map, we need a
Proj
instance:
>>> from pyproj import Proj
>>> awips221 = Proj(proj='lcc', R=6371200, lat_1=50, lat_2=50,
... lon_0=-107, ellps='clrk66')
>>> awips218 = Proj(proj='lcc', R=6371200, lat_1=25, lat_2=25,
... lon_0=-95, ellps='clrk66') #x_0=-llcrnrx,y_0=-llcrnry)
#llcrnrlon,llcrnrlat are lon and lat (in degrees) of lower
# left hand corner of projection region.
where proj='lcc
selects the Lambert conformal conic
projection for the x/y points, and ellps='clrk66'
selects the
reference ellipsoid for the lat/lng coordinates. The other
coordinates are LCC parameters that select the AWIPS 221
and AWIPS 226 projections respectively (lat_1
corresponds to Latin1
, lat_2
corresponds to Latin2
, and lon_0
corresponds to Lov
; see this description of the
two-standard-parallel LCC and its PROJ.4 parameters).
Convert our lat/lng pairs into grid points:
>>> awips221(lng1, lat1)
(2725283.842678774, 5823260.730665273)
>>> x221,y221 = awips221(npts[:,0], npts[:,1])
>>> # xy221 = numpy.concatenate((a1, a2, ...), axis=0) # numpy-2.0
>>> xy221 = numpy.ndarray(shape=npts.shape, dtype=npts.dtype)
>>> xy221[:,0] = x221
>>> xy221[:,1] = y221
>>> xy221
array([[ 2725283.84267877, 5823260.73066527],
[ 2071820.3526011 , 5892518.49630526],
[ 1422529.71760395, 5967565.49899035],
[ 775650.03731228, 6046475.43928965],
[ 129946.46495299, 6127609.80532071],
[ -515306.57275941, 6209785.69230076],
[-1160447.80254759, 6292455.41884832]])
Finally, you can convert points from one projection to another.
>>> from pyproj import transform
>>> x218,y218 = transform(awips221, awips218, x221, y221)
>>> xy218 = numpy.ndarray(shape=npts.shape, dtype=npts.dtype)
>>> xy218[:,0] = x218
>>> xy218[:,1] = y218
>>> xy218
array([[ 1834251.59591561, 4780900.70184736],
[ 1197541.13209718, 5028862.9881648 ],
[ 542391.04388716, 5258740.71523961],
[ -131577.34942316, 5464828.45934687],
[ -822685.42269932, 5641393.59760613],
[-1527077.85176048, 5783597.16169582],
[-2239159.34620498, 5888495.91009021]])
Another useful coordinate system is the Universal Transverse Mercator projection which slices the world into zones.
>>> p = Proj(proj='utm', zone=10, ellps='clrk66')
Putting everything together, here's a route map based on digital lat/lng pairs stored in a text file:
>>> from numpy import array
>>> from pylab import plot, show
>>> from pyproj import Geod, Proj
>>> latlng = array([[float(x) for x in ln.split()]
... for ln in open('coords', 'r')
... if not ln.startswith('#')])
>>> g = Geod(ellps='WGS84')
>>> az12s,az21s,dists = g.inv(latlng[:-1,1], latlng[:-1,0],
... latlng[1:,1], latlng[1:,0])
>>> print('total distance: %g m' % dists.sum())
total distance: 2078.93 m
>>> mlng = latlng[:,1].mean()
>>> zone = int(round((mlng + 180) / 6.))
>>> p = Proj(proj='utm', zone=zone, ellps='WGS84')
>>> xs,ys = p(latlng[:,1], latlng[:,0])
>>> lines = plot(xs, ys, 'r.-')
>>> show()
I've written up a simple script using this approach: maproute.py. I've also written up a simple script to draw a map with labeled points: maplabel.py.
Note that you can easily get lat/lng pairs using geopy (ebuild in my Gentoo overlay):
>>> import geopy
>>> g = geopy.geocoders.Google()
>>> place1,(lat1,lng1) = g.geocode("New York, NY")
>>> place2,(lat2,lng2) = g.geocode("Vancouver, Canada")
>>> place1,(lat1,lng1)
(u'New York, NY, USA', (40.7143528, -74.0059731))
>>> place2,(lat2,lng2)
(u'Vancouver, BC, Canada', (49.261226, -123.1139268))
If you're looking for a more compact C++ package for geographic conversions, GeographicLib looks promising.
Available in a git repository.
Repository: pypiezo
Author: W. Trevor King
This is a piezo-actuator control library based on pycomedi. It also contains some atomic-force-microscope-specific logic. The higher-level library pyafm extends the AFM-control framework with coarse positioning.
The README
is posted on the PyPI page.