API Reference

Release:1.0.0 Date:August 08, 2010

Python Spatial Analysis Library

The Python Spatial Analysis Library consists of several sub-packages each addressing a different area of spatial analysis. In addition to these sub-packages PySAL includes some general utilities used across all modules.

Documentation

PySAL documentation is available in two forms: Python docstrings and a html webpage at http://pysal.org/

Available sub-packages

• pysal.core — Core Data Structures and IO
• pysal.cg — Computational Geometry
• pysal.esda — Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
• pysal.inequality — Spatial Inequality Analysis
• pysal.spatial_dynamics — Spatial Dynamics
• pysal.region — Spatially constrained clustering
• pysal.weights — Spatial Weights
• pysal.FileIO — PySAL FileIO: Module for reading and writing various file types in a Pythonic way

Utilities

open

Tool for file input and output, supports many well known file formats

__version__

PySAL version string