[yt-dev] Issue #584: Dynamic teration over a time series object doesn't work (yt_analysis/yt)

[Nathan Goldbaum]

New issue 584: Dynamic teration over a time series object doesn't work
https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/issue/584/dynamic-teration-over-a-time-series-object

Nathan Goldbaum:

It appears that `TimeSeriesData.piter()` is hardcoded not to use dynamic load balancing.  See e.g. [here](https://bitbucket.org/yt_analysis/yt/src/7d765411da341fa45519ecb3ab788d3701246eb7/yt/data_objects/time_series.py?at=yt#cl-194).

After modifying `piter()` to accept a dynamic keyword and running with dynamic load balancing turned on, I get the following error: http://paste.yt-project.org/show/3559

A workaround is to directly call `parallel_objects` on a list of filenames and load each `pf` inside the `parallel_objects` loop.  It would be nice to do this workflow directly using a `TimeSeriesData` object, but it appears that this may be tricky given the way `TimeSeriesData` works.

I've marked this as a low priority enhancement for 2.6, please feel free to mark this as wontfix if it's a pain to fix.