Monthly Archives: March 2012

Installing the Python Imaging Library on OS X

Posted on March 29, 2012 by jackireland

This post is at least relevant to those of you who are using the www.python.org version of Python, and may be relevant to other OS X users who have installed sunpy by other means (I haven’t checked). Turns out that the … Continue reading →

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Installing sunpy on OS X using Python from www.python.org

Posted on March 29, 2012 by jackireland

Installing Python-based scientific libraries on OS X has long been, well, trying.  This is largely because Apple ships OS X with Python stored in an odd place, which breaks various location assumptions made by those other libraries.  Various solutions to … Continue reading →

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Wavelets for sunpy

Posted on March 5, 2012 by jackireland

I’ve been looking for some wavelet packages to do some analysis of time series.  These three look useful: pywavelets: available from http://www.pybytes.com/pywavelets/ .  This package has a lot of wavelet families available, including Haar. Wavelets.py: available from http://www.phy.uct.ac.za/courses/python/examples/Wavelets.py . A version of … Continue reading →

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