spec2nexus 2021.2.8
Reads SPEC data files, writes into NeXus HDF5 files.
Requires Python: >=3.9
Keywords: SPEC, diffraction, data acquisition, NeXus, HDF5, MatPlotLib

# spec2nexus

Reads SPEC data files, writes into NeXus HDF5 files:

    $ spec2nexus  path/to/file/specfile.dat

Writes `path/to/file/specfile.hdf5`

- Conda install:  `conda install -c conda-forge spec2nexus`
- Pip install:  `pip install spec2nexus`

## Provides

### Applications

- [**spec2nexus**](https://prjemian.github.io/spec2nexus/spec2nexus.html) :
  Convert [SPEC](https://certif.com) data
  files to [NeXus](https://nexusformat.org) [HDF5](https://hdfgroup.org)

- [**extractSpecScan**](https://prjemian.github.io/spec2nexus/extractSpecScan.html) :
  Save columns from SPEC data file scan(s) to TSV files

- [**specplot**](https://prjemian.github.io/spec2nexus/specplot.html) :
  plot a SPEC scan to an image file

- [**specplot\_gallery**](https://prjemian.github.io/spec2nexus/specplot_gallery.html) :
  call **specplot** for all scans in a list of files, makes a web gallery

### Libraries

- [**spec**](https://prjemian.github.io/spec2nexus/spec.html) :
  python binding to read SPEC data files

- [**eznx**](https://prjemian.github.io/spec2nexus/eznx.html) :
  (Easy NeXus) supports writing NeXus HDF5 files using h5py

## Package Information

term | description
--- | ---
**copyright** | (c) 2014-2022, Pete R. Jemian
**links** | [documentation](https://prjemian.github.io/spec2nexus),  [release notes](https://github.com/prjemian/spec2nexus/wiki/Release-Notes),  [source code](https://github.com/prjemian/spec2nexus)
**citation** | [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.6264513.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6264513)
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**author** | Pete R. Jemian
**email** | prjemian@gmail.com

## NOTE about support for Python version 2

spec2nexus ended development for Python 2 with release 2021.1.7, 2019-11-21.
For more information, visit https://python3statement.org/.