sdss_access

This products allows for dynamically building filepaths to SDSS data products hosted on the Science Archive Server (SAS). Filepaths are dynamically constructed given a minimal name and set of keywords to be substituted via a string templating system. Data products can also be downloaded programmatically using an Access class which provides streaming downloads via rysnc or curl depending on your OS. See the full documentation at http://sdss-access.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Developer Install

To install sdss_access for development locally:

git clone https://github.com/sdss/sdss_access
cd sdss_acccess
pip install -e ".[dev,docs]"

Build Sphinx Docs

Within the top level repo directory, run the sdsstools commands:

# build the Sphinx documentation
sdss docs.build

# open the docs locally in a browser
sdss docs.show

Documentation is automatically built and pushed to Read The Docs.

Testing

Tests are created using pytest. Navigate to the tests directory from the top level and run with pytest.

cd tests
pytest

Creating Releases

New releases of sdss-access are created automatically, and pushed to PyPi, when new tags are pushed to Github. See the Create Release Github Action and Releases for the list.

New tag names follow the Python semantic versioning syntax, i.e. X.Y.Z.