Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: PyTAPS
Version: 1.2
Summary: Python bindings for ITAPS interfaces
Home-page: http://packages.python.org/PyTAPS/
Author: Jim Porter
Author-email: jvporter@wisc.edu
License: UNKNOWN
Description: .. PyTAPS
           Jim Porter, <jvporter -at- wisc.edu>
           Revision 1.2, March 25, 2011
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        PyTAPS requires the following to be installed on your system:
        
        * Python 2.5+
        * `NumPy <http://numpy.scipy.org/>`_ 1.3.0+
        * At least one of...
        
          * `MOAB <http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/ITAPS/wiki/MOAB>`_ (or other iMesh
            interface)
          * `CGM <http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/ITAPS/wiki/CGM>`_ (or other iGeom
            interface)
          * `Lasso <http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/ITAPS/wiki/Lasso>`_ (or other iRel
            interface)
        
        Once you have the prerequisites, the easiest way to install PyTAPS is to use
        `Pip <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip>`_ (0.7+ recommended)::
        
          pip install pytaps
        
        This will download, compile, and install PyTAPS automatically. If you have some
        but not all of the ITAPS interfaces (e.g. only iMesh), this will only install
        interfaces for the libraries you have, as described in `Autodetection of
        Libraries`_.
        
        Building Manually
        -----------------
        
        Like many Python packages, PyTAPS uses Setuptools for installation, so in
        general setup consists simply of downloading the tarball, extracting it, and
        typing ``python setup.py install`` inside the extracted directory. However,
        certain ITAPS interfaces may require some additional setup.
        
        Autodetection of Libraries
        __________________________
        
        The PyTAPS setup script supports importing definitions from the
        `iXxx-Defs.inc` files, where `iXxx` is the name of the interface. PyTAPS will
        attempt to find these files automatically, by searching in some common
        locations:
        
        #. The files specified in the environment variables ``IXXX_DEFS``
        #. For each directory `dir` in the environment variables ``PATH`` and
           ``CPATH``, look in `dir/../lib`
        #. Each directory in the environment variable ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH``
        #. `/usr/local/lib`
        #. `/usr/lib`
        
        If the PyTAPS setup script cannot find the `iXxx-Defs.inc` file, it will
        assume you do not have that interface installed and automatically disable it in
        PyTAPS.
        
        If you have the `iXxx-Defs.inc` files installed but not in any of the above
        locations, you can specify where they are in the global command-line options
        ``--iXxx-path=PATH``, like so::
        
          python setup.py --iMesh-path=PATH install
        
        Usage
        =====
        
        The following example illustrates the basics of using iMesh. This script gets
        all the faces of a mesh and prints out the coordinates of their vertices::
        
          from itaps import iBase, iMesh
        
          mesh = iMesh.Mesh()
          mesh.load("mesh.vtk")
        
          faces = mesh.getEntities()
          adj = mesh.getEntAdj(faces, iBase.Type.vertex)
        
          for i in adj:
              for j in i:
                  x, y, z = mesh.getVtxCoords(j)
                  print "%f, %f, %f" % (x, y, z)
              print
        
        Testing
        =======
        
        Basic tests of the interfaces are located in test/. To run all tests, run
        ``python setup.py test``.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Requires: numpy(>=1.3.0)
Provides: itaps
