I have checked out the new cdsutils repository at:

/opt/rtcds/cdsutils/release

This is a new repository that is intended to hold all of our python libraries and command-line utilities for interacting with the IFO, things like:

• get/write values EPICS channels
• interact with filter module switches
• average a test point for some amount of time
• etc.

Basically everything that used to be ez* or tds*.

There's not much in there at the moment, but hopefully it will start to get filled in soon.

WARNING:

This code in here will be used by the sites to interact with the real aLIGO IFOs.  Please be careful as you develop things in here, and o so conscientiously.  If you do bad things here and it messes things up at the sites people will be angry.  Particularly me, since I have to support everything in here for Guardian use.

Usage

<cdsutils>/lib/cdsutils is the primary python library.  For each function you want to add, put it in a new file named after the function.  So for instance function "foo" should be in a file called <cdsutils>/lib/cdsutils/foo.py.

There is a command line utility at <cdsutils>/bin/cdsutils.  It will automatically find anything you add to the library and expose it as a sub command (e.g. "cdsutils foo")

We'll try to put together a wiki page describing development and usage of this soon.