Full list of dependencies

Glue has the following required dependencies:

• Python 2.7, or 3.3 and higher

• Numpy 1.9 or later

• Matplotlib 2.1 or later

• SciPy 1.0 or later

• Pandas 0.14 or later

• Astropy 2.0 or higher

• setuptools 1.0 or later

• Either PyQt5 or PySide2

• QtPy 1.2 or later - this is an abstraction layer for the Python Qt packages

• IPython 4.0 or later

• ipykernel 4.0 or later

• qtconsole

• dill 0.2 or later (which improves session saving)

• h5py 2.4 or later, for reading HDF5 files

• xlrd 1.0 or later, for reading Excel files

• mpl-scatter-density 0.5 or later, for making scatter density maps of many points.

• bottleneck 1.2 or later, for fast NaN-friendly computations

The following optional dependencies are also highly recommended and domain-independent:

• SciPy

• scikit-image

Finally, there are domain-specific optional dependencies. For astronomy, these are:

• astrodendro for dendrograms

• pyavm for reading AVM metadata

• spectral-cube for reading spectral cubes

You can check which dependencies are installed and which versions are available by running (once glue is installed):

glue-deps list