Getting Started with swc-registry-python

SWC-registry-python is a python package for accessing SWC-registry content.

Quick start

Assuming you have Python already:

$ pip install swc-registry

Check the package work:

from swc_registry import SWC

swc = SWC('SWC-100')
print(swc.title)

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Get the latest content of SWC-registry

On first use of the SWC methods, the SWC registry is initialized from file (swc-definition.json) out cache. If user wants to get the latest information about SWC-registry he needs to pass the second argument of SWC class.

from swc_registry import SWC

swc = SWC('SWC-100', True)
print(swc.title)

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