This package is designed for interactive as well as scripting-oriented processing of eye tracking data

Before you get started, a few things to point out:

• This package has alpha status and is only tested for the author's use cases. Contributions are welcome but at the moment we can't provide strong support.
• We tested the codes for different datasets and EyeLink devices. Still the parsing support will be limited to the cases we encountered. Reports and feedback are welcome.

* The philosophy behind this package and the code itself strongly draw from MNE-Python, a package for MEG/EEG data processing hosted by the authors: https://github.com/mne-tools/mne-python

This page only contains bare-bones instructions for installing pyeparse.

To get the latest code using git, simply type:

git clone git@github.com:dengemann/pyeparse.git

If you don't have git installed, you can download a zip or tarball of the latest code:

git@github.com:dengemann/pyeparse.git

As any Python packages, to install PyLink, go in the source code directory and do:

python setup.py install

or if you don't have admin access to your python setup (permission denied when install) use:

python setup.py install --user

The required dependencies to build the software are Python >= 2.6, NumPy >= 1.4, Scipy >= 0.11, and h5py. Pandas is an optional dependency that speeds up file reading. You must also have the Eyelink SDK installed in order to read EDF files.

pyeparse is BSD-licenced (3 clause):

This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

Copyright (c) 2012-2013, authors of pyeparse All rights reserved.

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• Neither the names of pyeparse authors nor the names of any contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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