[yt-users] problem accessing EOSCriticalDensity parameter (enzo)

[j s oishi]

Hi David,

Thanks, that worked perfectly. Somewhere in the back of my brain, I
knew that yt doesn't just load in the entire pf, but I forgot how to
add another param.

j

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:55 PM, David Collins
<dcollins at physics.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> I think yt only knows about certain parameters initially, and for
> others you need to tell it how to parse.  I have things like this in
> my plugins file:
>
> from yt.frontends.enzo.definitions import parameterDict
> parameterDict['WhatDoesABoatDo'] = float
>
> which then tells yt what type of variable 'WhatDoesABoatDo' should be parsed as.
>
> d.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 3:18 PM, j s oishi <jsoishi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to reach Enzo's EOSCriticalDensity parameter in my pf
>> within yt (hg hash 486d7131f1c2) . For some reason, it throws a
>> KeyError, even though grepping EOSCriticalDensity in the
>> DD0001/data0001 file turns it right up:
>>
>> $ grep EOSCriticalDensity DD0001/data0001
>> EOSCriticalDensity         = 1e-13
>>
>> I have deleted the .yt file, but to no avail. The error message is:
>>
>>
>> In [1]: pf['EOSCriticalDensity']
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
>>
>> /home/jsoishi/build/yt-unknown/src/yt-hg/yt/utilities/command_line.pyc
>> in <module>()
>> ----> 1
>>      2
>>      3
>>      4
>>      5
>>
>> /home/jsoishi/build/yt-unknown/src/yt-hg/yt/data_objects/static_output.pyc
>> in __getitem__(self, key)
>>    118                   self.conversion_factors]:
>>    119             if key in d: return d[key]
>> --> 120         raise KeyError(key)
>>    121
>>    122     def keys(self):
>>
>> KeyError: 'EOSCriticalDensity'
>>
>> Can anyone provide insight? I feel fairly certain I'm doing something
>> dumb, but I don't see what.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> jeff
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