Installation

The following instructions will allow you to install pysatNASA.

Prerequisites

pysatNASA uses common Python modules, as well as modules developed by and for the Space Physics community. This module officially supports Python 3.7+ and pysat 3.0.0+.

Common modules

Community modules

beautifulsoup4

cdflib>=0.4.4

lxml

pysat>=3.0.0

netCDF4

numpy

pandas

requests

xarray

Installation Options

1. Clone the git repository

git clone https://github.com/pysat/pysatNASA.git

Install pysatNASA: Change directories into the repository folder and run the setup.py file. There are a few ways you can do this:
1. Install on the system (root privileges required):
```
sudo python setup.py install
```
2. Install at the user level:
```
python setup.py install --user
```
3. Install with the intent to develop locally:
```
python setup.py develop --user
```

Post Installation

After installation, you may register the pysatNASA Instrument sub-modules with pysat. If this is your first time using pysat, check out the quickstart guide for pysat. Once pysat is set up, you may choose to register the the pysatNASA Instruments sub-modules by:

import pysat
import pysatNASA

pysat.utils.registry.register_by_module(pysatNASA.instruments)

You may then use the pysat platform and name keywords to initialize the model Instrument instead of the inst_module keyword argument.