[mesa-users] Mesa with Python

[Adam Jermyn]

I've made a github repository for this
(https://github.com/adamjermyn/AstroMicroPhysics), pushed what I have
so far, and have worked out a bit more of the scope, approach, etc.
Code contributions are more than welcome!
-Adam


On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Adam Jacobs <adam.jacobs at stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> Just want to chime in that I'm interested in a usable python interface as
> well. If such a project is open I'd be happy to contribute pull requests,
> especially for interfacing with MESA's reaction rate/burning modules. I've
> used these independently in research and think a python interface would make
> them more widely usable in the community.
>
> The project would definitely require active, sustained development to keep
> up with MESA changes.
>
> On Sep 28, 2015 7:14 AM, "Adam Jermyn" <adamjermyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rob,
>>
>> Thanks for the information. I have used f2py before, but not for
>> larger codes like MESA. I'll give it a try.
>>
>> All the best,
>> -Adam
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 12:26 AM, Robert Farmer <rjfarmer at asu.edu> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > All the mesa modules are isolated from each other, and should only call
>> > routines available from the files in the public/ sub-folder of other
>> > modules. Most (but not all) of the binding occurs via the routines
>> > inside
>> > the star module. It is be possible to call say the eos/ routines
>> > independently of the main code. See Kevin's example from the last summer
>> > school:
>> > https://mesa2015-external-code.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html
>> >
>> > So if you wanted to access the eos from python you only need the eos
>> > (plus
>> > its dependencies)
>> >
>> > Have you tried looking at f2py if you want a python interface? Its
>> > relatively easy to use and you don't need to worry about changing the
>> > source
>> > code, though getting the build to link everything properly might take
>> > some
>> > work.
>> >
>> > Rob
>> >
>> > On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Adam Jermyn <adamjermyn at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> 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
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
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