SamSifter is written in Python3 and uses docstrings written in reStructuredText (reST) format following the Numpy docstring standard for the documentation of all classes and functions. The package is distributed through the Python Package Inventory at https://pypi.python.org/pypi/SamSifter using functionality provided by Python’s setuptools library.
All entities follow the PEP8 naming conventions using all lowercase names with underscores (lower_case_with_underscores) for packages, modules, methods, attributes, and functions but capitalized words (CapWords) for classes unless they are referring to C++ methods that are part of the PyQt4 library.
The following packages are included: