A Python/Jython library for accessing the CS-Studio Scan Server. Supports both the original Eclipse-based Scan Server and the Phoebus-based version.

For latest snapshot of documentation, see https://controlssoftware.sns.ornl.gov/css_pyscanclient/html.

To build local copy of documentation from sources, you need to install sphinx, http://sphinx-doc.org/. To install on Linux (RedHat):

sudo yum install python-sphinx

To build documentation from sources:

cd doc
make clean html

Then view doc/_build/html/index.html in web browser.

Global installation:

sudo python setup.py install

Local installation:

python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME

and then add the resulting $HOME/lib/python*/site-packages directory to your PYTHONPATH.

Minimal local installation:

python setup.py build

and then add the resulting build/lib folder to your PYTHONPATH.

# cd to where it was installed
rm -rf PyScanClient*.egg-info scan 

See Test/test_standalone

See https://github.com/PythonScanClient/PyScanClient/blob/master/scan/version.py

This repository is at https://github.com/PythonScanClient/PyScanClient