pylook¶

pylook is a Python library to reduce and process data from rock mechanics laboratory experiments. It is based upon the xlook tool and replacing it with a modern, sustainable, and easily installable tool that features a complete test suite and documentation.

pylook is maintained and developed by the open source community. Leeman Geophysical LLC manages the project.

Contact Us¶

We’re open source! Find a bug? File an issue! Leeman Geophysical LLC can offer basic support, but time resources are limited. You can email our support inbox

Versions¶

pylook follows semantic versioning in its version number. This means that any pylook 1.x release will be backwards compatible with an earlier 1.y release. By “backward compatible”, we mean that correct code that works on a 1.y version will work on a future 1.x version. It’s always possible for bug fixes to change behavior or make incorrect code cease to work. Backwards-incompatible changes will only be allowed when changing to version 2.0. Such changes will be proceeded by pylookDeprecationWarning or FutureWarning as appropriate. For a version 1.x.y, we change x when we release new features, and y when we make a release with only bug fixes.

License¶

pylook is available under the terms of the open source BSD 3 Clause license.

Code of Conduct¶

We want everyone to feel welcome to contribute to pylook and participate in discussions. In that spirit please have a look at our code of conduct.

Thanks¶

This project wouldn’t be possible without the support of the countless open-source developers that donate their time and talents to the Python ecosystem. The structure of pylook is largely based upon the hard work of Unidata’s Python team and their experience with developing and deploying the MetPy package. Chris Marone funded the initial development of pylook and was the first to have a vision of auditable and tracked data reduction for the rock mechanics community when xlook was created.