Lantz: Simple yet powerful instrumentation in Python

Lantz

Lantz is an automation and instrumentation toolkit with a clean, well-designed and consistent interface. It provides a core of commonly used functionalities for building applications that communicate with scientific instruments allowing rapid application prototyping, development and testing. Lantz benefits from Python’s extensive library flexibility as a glue language to wrap existing drivers and DLLs.

When you use Lantz you get:

  • A comprehensive and growing library of curated and well documented instruments drivers.

  • A really easy way write your own drivers. In less than an hour you can write a full driver with bounds checks, useful logging, async capabilities and much more.

  • On-the-fly GUI for testing purposes. Without a line of code you get for any driver something like this (click to enlarge):

  • Tools to quickly build beautiful, responsive and composable applications.

  • Rapid application development primitives.

  • An awesome and supporting community.

More information

Lantz Philosophy and design principles.

A short tour of Lantz features.

Frequently asked questions and their answers.

Getting in touch with users and developers.

Learn

Step-by-step instructions to install, use and build drivers using Lantz.

Task oriented guides.

More information

We need your brain.

List of Lantz drivers.

Application programming interface reference.

Indices and tables

Lists all sections and subsections.

All functions, classes, terms.

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