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|irispy-lmsal|
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``IRISpy``, now called |irispy-lmsal| was originally developed as a community effort by members of the SunPy Project.
The ``IRISpy`` package was never released to the public and existed only in a development form.
The SunPy project came to the conclusion that the functionality of ``IRISpy`` was actually very generalized and could be made available to the wider Solar community.
The more instrument agnostic module for handling spectrometer data was named `sunraster <https://docs.sunpy.org/projects/sunraster/en/latest/>`__.
``IRISpy`` therefore been taken over by the IRIS instrument team at LMSAL.
This came with a rename, and a public release of the package.

As a result, the documentation for |irispy-lmsal| is now available and you can publicly install the package using ``pip``.
The documentation has been updated with examples of how to use the package.

The aim is to unify the two different Python libraries that LMSAL manage: |irispy-lmsal| and |IRISLMSALgit| under the ``irispy-lmsal`` name.
There is no ETA to this.

Alongside this, is a parallel effort to create a dedicated Python GUI for IRIS data analysis that mirrors CRISPEX that uses |irispy-lmsal| underneath.