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

[Rob Seaman]

Copacetic!

Seems to work as advertised.  You'll likely want a “rehash” before the pygcn-listen.  The output ends up in the rather obscure python.../site-packages/gcn named by IVORN with embedded codes in the file names.  Could benefit from obvious command line arguments for setting the directory, etc.

Rob
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On Feb 11, 2014, at 11:26 AM, Roy Williams <roy at caltech.edu> wrote:

> New VOEvent software that may be of some interest.
> Roy
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> -------- 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
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