[Yt-dev] EnzoFOF merger tree

[Matthew Turk]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Stephen Skory <stephenskory at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt,
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>> I'd say go for it, but could you describe a bit more what's going on?
>> Does your new code (pydot based) communicate directly with graphviz?
>> Does it do this via named pipes, is it pure python, does it use a
>> shared library, etc etc?
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> The code does not communicate directly with graphviz. It makes a temporary file on disk using tempfile.mkstemp(), and then calls the chosen executable (dot, neato, etc...) using subprocess to make the final image. It is pure python, and is self-contained in one file under a MIT license, so we can add it to yt with no problems, I think. Does that explain what you're curious about?

Yup, that all sounds great!

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