From 3eb58caae4202297306a71b6a82dbb0f14669cc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Robert Smallshire Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 17:35:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update and rename README to README.rst --- README => README.rst | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) rename README => README.rst (88%) diff --git a/README b/README.rst similarity index 88% rename from README rename to README.rst index 34d6cdd..8b2e1ea 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README.rst @@ -1,6 +1,13 @@ +===== +Segpy +===== + The SEG Y file format is one of several standards developed by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists for storing geophysical seismic data. Segpy is a package for reading, writing and manipulating SEG Y data in pure Python. +History +======= + Segpy is a fork of the Segypy package originally put together by Thomas Mejer Hansen under an LGPL license. I was unsuccessful in my attempts to contact Hansen in order to contribute improvements, hence the fork under a different name, which of course remains under the LGPL license. @@ -9,9 +16,12 @@ I have cleaned up the code towards being modern, idiomatic Python and made it co Pull requests, bug reports and suggestions for improvements are most welcome! -Authors: - - Robert Smallshire 2011 to date - - Thomas Mejer Hansen 2005 + +Authors +======= + + * Robert Smallshire 2011 to date + * Thomas Mejer Hansen 2005 The Ibm2Ieee conversion routines are developed and made availabe for SegyPY by Secchi Angelo, who thanks Howard Lightstone and Anton Vredegoor for their help.