Intro
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Pywfdb is a Python module which provides interface to WFDB library.
It allows to access PhysioBank databases of physiologic signals
from within Python in a simple and convenient manner.


Download
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This package can be downloaded from http://pybytes.com/pywfdb/ website
or from Cheese Shop http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pywfdb


Install
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    Download and unpack WFDB library files, preferably to pywfdb directory.
     -> http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/wfdb-no-docs.tar.gz

    Configure WFDB library with --without-netfiles switch, for example:
        ./wfdb-10.3.17/configure --without-netfiles --static --static_only --prefix=. --mandir=.

    Edit paths in setup.py to point to WFDB lib source and header files.

    python setup.py install 


Documentation
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Documentation is available in `doc` directory as well as online at http://pybytes.com/pywfdb/

See also examples in 'example' directory.


Links
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For information about PhysioBank see http://www.physionet.org/physiobank/

For information about WFDB library see http://www.physionet.org/physiotools/wfdb.shtml


License
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Pywfdb is distributed under GPL license.


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Filip Wasilewski
