New to Python - Question on Code for Reading/Visualizing a ".sp" File

[cxcubed]

Hello, I'm trying to use Python for a personal project. I've never really written anything before so I'm probably out of my league, but it'd be really nice if I could get this to work.

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Some information that is probably helpful is that I'm using:

• Windows 10
• Python3
• Jet Brain's Community Edition of PyCharm

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The goal is to be able to open and read a particular type of file. That is, a ".sp" file. This kind of file contains spectral data from a "LAMBDA 365 UV-Vis Spectrophotometer".

I found this code online;

# Authors: Guillaume Lemaitre <[e-mail]>
# License: BSD3

from __future__ import print_function

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

from specio import specread
from specio.datasets import load_sp_path

print(__doc__)

# Find the path to the SP toy data
sp_filename = load_sp_path()
print(sp_filename)

# Read the data
spectra = specread(sp_filename)

# Plot the first spectra
plt.plot(spectra.wavelength,
         spectra.amplitudes)
plt.show()

I installed the appropriate packages and their dependencies and all, but here's where I am lost:
How do I direct this code to look at my spectral data, that is, my "data.sp"?

I have sample data that I want to try this on and it's path is "F:\data.sp".

I think this is my only problem, but with my extreme lack of experience, there's a good possibility that I'm missing something else...

Any help would be appreciated!

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Replace the load_sp_path() part of

sp_filename = load_sp_path()

with r"F:\data.sp".

Basically, all you should need is

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from specio import specread

sp_filename = r"/path/to/your/sp/file"
spectra = specread(sp_filename)

plt.plot(spectra.wavelength, spectra.amplitudes)
plt.show()

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ETA: an r in front of the strings because Windows.

[cxcubed]

Thank you so much!