diffpy.utils documentation

diffpy.utils - general purpose shared utilities for the diffpy libraries.

Software version 3.3.1.

Last updated March 30, 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.

Examples

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

• File Data Extraction

• Resampling & Data Reconstruction

Authors

diffpy.utils is developed by members of the Billinge Group at Columbia University and at Brookhaven National Laboratory including Pavol Juhás, Timur Davis, Christopher L. Farrow, Simon J.L. Billinge.

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
• Examples
  • Parsers Example
  • Resampling Example
• Package API

Indices

• Index

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