GRASS GIS Python library documentation
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Python, a widely used general-purpose, high-level programming language 
provides a powerful scripting interface. Being easy-to-use yet 
powerful, it enables users to efficiently exploit the capabilities
of the `GRASS GIS` software. Python scripts for GRASS GIS can be written at 
high level (GRASS GIS modules) as well as at low level (GRASS GIS 
libraries) through a dedicated interface. The graphical user interface 
and the GRASS GIS Temporal Framework are entirely written in Python.

A set of packages is provided to the user in order to provide functionality
at various levels:

* **script package** provides Python interface to launch GRASS GIS modules in scripts
* **PyGRASS** is an object-oriented Python Application 
  Programming Interface (API) for GRASS GIS which uses the GRASS C API as 
  backend but additionally offers a convenient interface to the GRASS GIS 
  modules
* **GRASS GIS Temporal Framework** implements the temporal GIS functionality
  of GRASS GIS and provides an API to implement spatio-temporal processing modules
* **Testing GRASS GIS source code and modules** using gunittest package
* **exceptions package** contains exceptions used by other packages
* **imaging package** is a library to create animated images and films
* **pydispatch package** is a library for signal-dispatching

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 3

   script_intro
   pygrass_index
   temporal_framework
   exceptions
   imaging
   gunittest_testing
   pydispatch

.. _GRASS GIS: https://grass.osgeo.org/
