Lab Installation

Directory Structure

Each experiment uses two git repositories: Haeffner-Lab-LabRAD-Tools for common servers and clients and one containing code that is only useful for that experiment. To achieve this, we use the following directory structure

LabRAD\
       __init__.py
       \common\...
       \experiment_name\...

where common is the cloned Haeffner-Lab-LabRAD-Tools repository and experiment_name is the experiment-specific repository. Having __init__.py there indicates that this is a package. This allows for easy import of files from either directory using:

import common.folder.file

To achieve this, add the LabRAD directory to PYTHONPATH