yt Overview¶
Warning
This documentation is still in flux! We’re still hard at work writing it – in particular, almost all of the new features in 1.5 are still undocumented! Check back as things get updated and fixed and added!
yt is a general-purpose toolkit designed to analyze, manage and plot adaptive mesh refinement data from the Enzo and Orion codes. It runs both interactively and non-interactively, and has been designed to support as many operations as possible in parallel.
If you use yt in a paper, I highly encourage you to read about our policy on free repository space for analysis code!
Below you’ll find the table of contents. There’s a super-quick-start guide to interactive data analysis, a tour of the objects and methodology of yt, a short cookbook, a guide extending, and – perhaps most important of all – a guide to the classes and functions available!
Contents:
- Introduction
- Getting the Code
- Analysis Philosophy
- How to Use YT
- Cookbook
- Extending yt
- Contributing Code
- Asking for Help
- FAQ
- Why Python?
- Where can I learn more about Python?
- Who works on yt?
- What’s up with the names?
- Are there any restrictions on my use of yt?
- How do I know what the units returned are?
- What are all these .yt files?
- How can I help?
- Something has gone wrong. What do I do?
- How do I specify an axis?
- Where can I go for support?
- API Documentation
