babelscan.instrument

instrument

Define Instrument class

An instrument is a generator of Scans and FolderMonitors (experiements) with specific default settings

babelscan.instrument.instrument_from_config(config_file)

Create Instrument class from instrument.config file.

.config files should be json files with the following keys:

‘name’: str ‘default_names’: dict, ‘formats’: dict, ‘default_values’: dict, ‘options’: dict

Parameters:

config_file – str config filename

Returns:

Instrument

Class: Instrument

class babelscan.instrument.Instrument(name, default_names=None, formats=None, default_values=None, options=None)

Instrument class

An instrument is a generator of Scans and FolderMonitors (experiements) with specific default settings

beamline = Instrument(‘name’, default_names, functions, filename_format) :param name: str : name of instrument :param default_names: dict : Scan objects created will :param formats: dict : :param options: dict :