[yt-dev] _determine_fields

[Nathan Goldbaum]

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Britton Smith <brittonsmith at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been discussing with Hilary the best way to allow ProfilePlot to work
> with profile data loaded from disk.  It seems it would be easy enough to
> make a Profile object from loaded data, but the holdup is that there are a
> number of calls to data_source._determine_fields for simple things like
> checking if a field is log or linear.
>
> I had a look at this function, which hangs off of YTDataContainer, and
> noticed that it doesn't seem to really need the data container itself.  I'm
> thinking that this function could be moved to instead hang off of the
> Dataset object without a problem.  If so, then ProfilePlot could much more
> easily be extended to work with data from disk, since you could also supply
> None for the data_source.
>
> Does anyone see a problem with doing this?
>
>
I don't but Matt might.


> Britton
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