Introduction
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This package is a cleaned up subset of the hogdepodge of the Python
glue that I regularly use to massage data into and out of persistent
homology and other TDA computations. It does *not* compute anything
itself, and exists primarily to marshal data into and out of the
formats used by the excellent [DIPHA](https://github.com/DIPHA/dipha)
software, in order to make it easier to pre- and post-process data in
Python.

Caveats
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I decided to clean up and release a subset of these scripts to make
life slightly easier for those who compute persistent homology and
prefer to manipulate data in Python. The scripts come with the
following caveats:

- The scripts were too messy to release as they were, and the cleaning
  up process means that this is now essentially untested software
  again. Beware.
  
- There is nothing of substance here. This is just glue around
  [DIPHA](https://github.com/DIPHA/dipha).
  
- I use Python as modern Perl, and my experience with it is limited to
  quickly manipulating data without too much thought for writing
  structured software. Beware.
  
- I make no attempt to accurately reflect the full capabilities of
  [DIPHA](https://github.com/DIPHA/dipha).
  
- Since Python will let you write `Interval("banana", 5)`, so will I,
  and you and your persistence generator "from banana to 5" can go
  solve problems down the road.


Installation
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FIXME.


Use
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FIXME.