This repository hosts the veto definitions used by the joint LIGO-Virgo transient data anlysis groups. The veto definitions are recorded in LIGO_LW-schema XML files.

All changes to these files should be made via the GitHub fork-and-pull model.

The python modules contained in this repository provides methods to validate a veto-definer file and its contents.

The vetodef python package can be installed by running

python setup.py install

from the root of the repository [add --user if you don't have super-user (sudo) privileges].

The python executables in the bin directory will be installed as well as the vetodef package.

From there a blank veto-definer file can be created via

ligolw-vetodef-create <filename>

and then appended to via

ligolw-vetodef-append <filename> <flag> [<options>]

and finally validated against all standard checks via

ligolw-vetodef-validate <filename>