[yt-users] ds.max_level

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Cameron,

It's a descriptive parameter, not prescriptive, and it defaults to 99
for some reason buried in the mists of time.  I think it should just
not be defined, or default to something more clearly not real, than
give 99.

-Matt

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was my understanding that you could set it to limit the data you were
> selecting to truncate at a certain level.  By setting to 99, it's
> effectively always selecting the highest res data.  But maybe i'm wrong on
> this?
>
> Cameron
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Michael Zingale
> <michael.zingale at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
>>
>> If I read in a dataset like:
>>
>> ds = yt.load("ActiveParticleCosmology/DD0046/DD0046")
>>
>> (that file is from the data page)
>>
>> and then do
>>
>> print ds.max_level
>>
>> it gives 99.  This happens for the boxlib frontend too.
>>
>> Is there any meaning to the ds.max_level parameter?  should we be setting
>> it somewhere? or else remove it?  As it is, it is confusing (and tempting to
>> use it) seeing it there.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Zingale
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>>
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>> 11794-3800
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> Cameron Hummels
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> University of Arizona
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