[Mesa-users] MesaReader Python Plotting Issue

[amber lauer]

Madison, in a pinch you can always open LOG files with any spreadsheet
program. It's pretty easy to plot them this way.
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Dr. Amber Lauer
Postdoctoral Researcher
Triangle Universities Nuclear Lab
Duke University
amber.lauer at tunl.duke.edu <amber.lauer at duke.edu>


On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 3:10 PM Madison Lyn Fitzgerald-Russell <
madison.l.fitzgerald at wmich.edu> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion! How did you even find that tiny difference?
>
> Thanks,
> Madison
>
>
> Madison Fitzgerald-Russell
>
> Graduate Assistant
> Department of Physics & The Mallinson Institute for Science Education
> Western Michigan University
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Desmond Helmut Grossmann <desmond.helmut at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:47 PM
> *To:* Madison Lyn Fitzgerald-Russell <madison.l.fitzgerald at wmich.edu>
> *Cc:* mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Mesa-users] MesaReader Python Plotting Issue
>
> Dear Madison,
>
> I just tried it to plot with mesareader module myself (with the new
> version of MESA) and I encountered the same problem. The solution, that
> worked for me was:
>
> In the History file (in LOGS directory), which is accessed by mesa reader,
> in the 4th column (the one with the stellar age) it provides the version
> number of MESA SDK (basically just for information it doesn't matter for
> plotting). However, in my case it shows the following:
>
> "x86_64-osx-10.10-10.14-2019
>
> At the end of the version number there is a quotation mark missing. If you
> add this quotation mark by hand, save the file and rerun the python script
> it should work out fine.
>
> Greeting s from the MESA Summer School
>
> Desmond
>
>
> Am Di., 13. Aug. 2019 um 12:22 Uhr schrieb Madison Lyn Fitzgerald-Russell <
> madison.l.fitzgerald at wmich.edu>:
>
> Dear MESA users,
>
> I am having an issue with plotting my data from a standard 1M_pre_ms_to_wd
> run from v11701 using the MesaReader Python module. When I try to plot any
> variable against time, the script freezes and is unable to produce a plot.
>  If I plot two other variables (effective temperature and luminosity, for
> example), I do not run into this issue (although Python is a little slower
> than usual to open the figure).
>
> After some significant googling, I tried a number of suggestions, and when
> I use two of these suggestions (noted in attached .py file) with non-MESA
> data, I'm able to produce a plot. When I try to use MESA data, the freezing
> issue returns. This is new for me, as I recently updated to v11701, and I
> did not have the same problem when I was using data from v10378.
>
> I've included a copy of the Python code I'm using to plot. The exact same
> code, without the suggestions noted, works with data from v10378--I did
> test that to make sure.
>
> I wondered if this was an issue anyone else had run into, and if so, what
> workarounds you found.
>
> I'm using Python 2.7.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Madison Fitzgerald-Russell
>
> Graduate Assistant
> Department of Physics & The Mallinson Institute for Science Education
> Western Michigan University
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