Pycroscopy requires many commonly used python packages such as numpy, scipy etc. To simplify the installation process, we recommend the installation of Anaconda which contains most of the prerequisite packages as well as a development environment - Spyder.
3. Install pycroscopy - Open a terminal (mac / linux) or command prompt (windows - if possible with administrator priveleges) and type:
.. code:: bash
pip install pycroscopy
4. Enjoy pycroscopy!
We recommend `HDF View <https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/java/hdfview/>`_ for exploring HDF5 files generated by and used in pycroscopy.
Updating
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If you already have pycroscopy installed and want to update to the latest version, use the following command:
.. code:: bash
pip install -U --no-deps pycroscopy
If it does not work try reinstalling the package:
.. code:: bash
pip uninstall pycroscopy
pip install pycroscopy
Compatibility
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* Pycroscopy was initially developed in python 2 but all current / future development for pycroscopy will be on python 3.5+. Nonetheless, we will do our best to ensure continued compatibility with python 2.
* We currently do not support 32 bit architectures