sparc, an acronym for Scientific PARameter Collection, is a Python module that provides classes to easily create, edit, visualize, and serialize scientific parameter structures. In the world of sparc, a parameter is a name-value pair. Parameters can be nested and depend on other parameter values , thereby emulating spreadsheet-like behavior. For more examples on how sparc can be used, please refer to the examples section.

sparc is developed by Tobias Schruff <tobias.schruff@gmail.com>.

sparc is completely written in the Python programming language. To install it, only a few dependencies have to be satisfied.

- Python (>= 2.6 or >= 3.2)

Optionally, if you want to use the gui module, you also have to install the following dependencies

- PyQt5

If you already have all dependencies installed, the easiest way to install sparc is using pip

pip install sparc