[yt-users] If statement for particles existing?
Britton Smith
brittonsmith at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 09:12:14 PDT 2010
Hi Libby,
You could also try getting the NumberOfParticles parameter from the
parameter file with:
pf.get_parameter('NumberOfParticles',type=int)
Britton
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Elizabeth Harper-Clark <
h-clark at astro.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I sometimes have particles in my sims and when i do I want to plot them. At
> the moment I have:
> if sp["ParticleMassMsun"].size > 0:
> p.modify["particles"](1.0, p_size=10.0, col='k')
>
> but if there are no particles I get this error message:
>
> yt INFO 2010-04-16 11:58:29,408 Getting ParticleMassMsun
> using ParticleIO
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "Density_movie.py", line 29, in <module>
> if sp["ParticleMassMsun"].size > 0:
> File
> "/scratch/YT-x86_64/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yt-2.0dev-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/yt/lagos/BaseDataTypes.py",
> line 249, in __getitem__
> self.get_data(key)
> File
> "/scratch/YT-x86_64/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yt-2.0dev-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/yt/lagos/BaseDataTypes.py",
> line 1636, in get_data
> self[field] = self.particles[field]
> File
> "/scratch/YT-x86_64/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yt-2.0dev-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/yt/lagos/ParticleIO.py",
> line 45, in __getitem__
> return self.get_data(key)
> File
> "/scratch/YT-x86_64/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yt-2.0dev-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/yt/lagos/ParticleIO.py",
> line 91, in get_data
> conv_factors)
> File
> "/scratch/YT-x86_64/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yt-2.0dev-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/yt/lagos/DataReadingFuncs.py",
> line 206, in _read_particles
> filenames, ids, conv_factors = zip(*sorted(zip(filenames, ids,
> conv_factors)))
> ValueError: need more than 0 values to unpack
>
>
> Can anyone think of a better if statement to check if i have particles that
> doesn't crash YT if there isn't?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Libby
>
>
>
> --
> Elizabeth Harper-Clark MA MSci
> PhD Candidate, Astrophysics, UofT
>
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> h-clark at cita.utoronto.ca
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