[yt-dev] Question: file format recognition for GAMER

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Hi Hsi-Yu,

To add on to what Kacper said, you'll probably find this wiki entry useful:

https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/wiki/AddingSupportForANewCode

-Nathan

On 10/29/12 1:00 AM, Hsi-Yu Schive wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have two simple questions about adding support of GAMER in yt.
> 1. How does YT distinguish between data generated from different codes?
> For example, if I want to do something like
>    pf = load( "GAMER_Data0000" )
> to load the GAMER data, how to make YT realize that it is GAMER output 
> instead of, for example, Enzo or FLASH data?
> What kind of information I should provide in the 
> "frontends/gamer/XXX.py" scripts and the GAMER output 
> file "GAMER_Data0000"
> in order to achieve that?
> 2. After I implement all routines in the "frontends/gamer/XXX/py" 
> scripts, how to recompile YT so that I could test
> whether the GAMER data can be loaded and analyzed successfully? From 
> the information on the "How to Develop yt" website,
> it seems that I should try:
>    cd $YT_DEST/src/yt-hg/
>    python setup.py develop
> I was wondering whether that's exactly what I should do to test the 
> new scripts?
> Thanks in advance for any help : )
> Sincerely,
> Hsi-Yu
>
>
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