[mesa-users] Mesa with Python

[Adam Jermyn]

Hi Bill,

How is this handled in terms of making sure that different modules
within MESA can talk to each other? Does that interface change
substantially over time? For EOS in particular, it seems that there's
a pretty well-defined set of inputs and outputs, so that one might be
more amenable to an API treatment than others...

Thanks!
-Adam


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
> 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
>