About Data Exchange

Data Exchange is a Python toolbox for reading and writing Data Exchange files. It provides an interface between tomographic raw datasets collected at different synchrotron facilities and tomoPy, a Python toolbox to perform tomographic data processing and image reconstruction tasks developed at the Advanced Photon Source.

External Dependencies:

• tifffile.c, a Python C extension module used by tifffile.py for decoding PackBits and LZW encoded TIFF data

Python Dependencies:

• NumPy 1.8.0
• H5Py 2.2.1
• ez_setup 0.9
• tifffile.py, a Python module to read and write image data from and to TIFF files.

Installing Data Exchange:

Make sure you have Python 2.6 or 2.7 and the above dependencies installed in your system.

• To install from an egg distribution download the latest released egg for your system, open shell prompt and type easy_install my-egg-name in the directory where the egg resides.

• To build and install from source, download the latest source tarball, open shell prompt and type python setup.py install or python setup.py install --user in the directory where setup.py resides.

To test if the installation was succesfull, open a new shell and try:

• python -c "import dataexchange"