Welcome to the documentation for the Cinfdata Database Client!

Cinfdata Client is a simple Python module for accessing and caching data from the Cinfdata database. The use of the module could look something like this:

from cinfdata import Cinfdata
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

# Instantiate the database client for a specific setup e.g. stm312
db = Cinfdata('stm312')
# Get the data and metadata for a specific id
spectrum = db.get_data(6688)
metadata = db.get_metadata(6688)

plt.plot(spectrum[:,0], spectrum[:, 1])
plt.title(metadata['Comment'])
plt.show()

To get started, please start by reading the first few sections of the Introduction. Then have a look at the Examples or the Source Code Documentation (API).

Contents

• Introduction
  • Behind the scenes
  • Dangers of Caching
  • Getting Rid of Copied Code
• Getting started
  • How to import the cinf_database
  • Adding cinf_database to PYTHONPATH
  • Using the cinf_database module from outside DTU
• Examples
  • Simplest Possible Example
  • Simple Example with Plot
  • Simple Example Using the Cache
• Source Code Documentation (API)

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page