Installation

Installing GWpy

Conda

The recommended way of installing GWpy is with Conda:

$ conda install -c conda-forge gwpy

Pip

$ python -m pip install gwpy

Supported python versions: 3.6+.

Requirements

GWpy has the following strict requirements:

Requirements for GWpy

Name	Constraints
astropy	>=3.0.0
dqsegdb2
gwdatafind
gwosc	>=0.5.3
h5py	>=2.7.0
ligo-segments	>=1.0.0
ligotimegps	>=1.2.1
matplotlib	>=3.1.0
numpy	>=1.12.0
dateutil
scipy	>=1.2.0
tqdm	>=4.10.0

All of these will be installed using any of the above install methods.

GWpy also depends on the following other packages for optional features:

• glue.ligolw: to read/write EventTable with LIGO_LW XML format (see LIGO_LW XML)

• LDAStools.frameCPP: to read/write data in GWF format

• nds2: to provide remote data access for TimeSeries (see Remote data access)

• root_numpy: to read/write EventTable with ROOT format (see ROOT)