pygcn: anonymous VOEvent client for receiving GCN/TAN notices in XML format

[Roy Williams]

New VOEvent software that may be of some interest.
Roy


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [CBC] [grb] pygcn: anonymous VOEvent client for receiving 
GCN/TAN notices in XML format
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:40:23 -0800
From: Leo Singer <lsinger at caltech.edu>
Reply-To: cbc at ligo.org
To: emfollow at ligo.org, GRB group <cbc+grb at ligo.org>, burst+grb at ligo.org

Hello,

I'm pleased to share pygcn, a tiny Python package for listening to and 
receiving GCN/TAN notices in XML format. This code is part of the 
Fermi-iPTF GRB follow-up pipeline. I hope that it may be of some use to 
people working on GRB-related topics within LIGO.

The package has an entry in the Python Package Index:
https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pygcn

And its source code is in GitHub:
https://github.com/lpsinger/pygcn

If you have pip, you can download and install it with one simple command:
$ pip install pygcn

And then you can launch the demo program, which just writes every 
received GCN to a file, like this:
$ pygcn-listen

If anyone finds this useful, or has feedback or suggestions, please 
shoot me an e-mail.

Enjoy!
Leo Singer
Graduate Student @ LIGO-Caltech