[mesa-users] Mesa with Python

Bill Paxton paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu
Fri Sep 25 10:40:56 EDT 2015


Hi Adam,

Yes, a Python interface would be great.  Kent Budge created one: 

http://mesapp.sourceforge.net/

But I don't know when it was last updated -- it takes a substantial effort to keep the Python and C++ interfaces up to date with the rapidly changing MESA versions.

Cheers,
Bill
On Sep 25, 2015, at 6:20 AM, Adam Jermyn wrote:

> Dear Dr. Paxton,
> 
> I've been working with MESA, and it occurred to me that it would be
> extremely useful to be able to call many of the modules in MESA from
> other codes (particularly in high-level languages like Python). For
> instance, the EOS module in MESA provides the greatest coverage of any
> EOS available, but as far as I can tell there is no MESA equivalent to
> the OPAL EOS tables. Are there any plans for providing standalone EOS
> tables (or providing interfaces to other languages)?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Adam
> 
> 
> ---
> Adam Jermyn
> University of Cambridge, IoA
> Caltech Class of 2015





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