Introduction

pyfact provides support for analysing FACT data using python. This comprises:

• classes for accessing and analysing FACT data
• tools for specific tasks
• general python language support
• examples

If you are new to python you need to learn the basics. In any case it would be wise to study the following book:

A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python - Hans Petter Langtangen

pyfact is supposed to follow closely the programming style thought in this book.

python documentation pages

astropython.org

Python version and modules used

As long as you work on the ISDC FACT cluster most things should be just fine. |python version: 2.6.6 |— add later: list of modules

Style guide and coding conventions

The code of pyfact follows the `Style Guide for python code <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>.