yt(1)

command-line tool allowing to access some of yt's basic functionality without opening a python interpreter.

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Description

YT

NAME

yt - command-line tool allowing to access some of yt’s basic functionality without opening a python interpreter.

DESCRIPTION

The tools is a collection of subcommands. These can quickly making plots of slices and projections through a dataset, updating yt’s codebase, print basic statistics about a dataset, launch an IPython notebook session, and more.
usage: yt [-h] [--config CONFIG] [--paste] [--paste-detailed] [--detailed]
[--rpdb] [--parallel] [--version] subcommand

yt command line arguments

optional arguments:

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--config CONFIG

Set configuration option, in the form param=value

--paste

Paste traceback to paste.yt-project.org

--paste-detailed

Paste a detailed traceback with local variables to paste.yt-project.org

--detailed

Display detailed traceback.

--rpdb

Enable remote pdb interaction (for parallel debugging).

--parallel

Run in MPI-parallel mode (must be launched as an MPI task)

--version

show program’s version number and exit

subcommands:

help

Print help message

bugreport

Report a bug in yt

hub_register

instinfo

Get some information about the yt installation

version

Get some information about the yt installation

load

Load a single dataset into an IPython instance

mapserver

Serve a plot in a GMaps-style interface

pastebin

Post a script to an anonymous pastebin

pastebin_grab

Print an online pastebin to STDOUT for local use.

upload_notebook

Upload an IPython notebook to hub.yt-project.org.

	plot		Create a set of images
	rpdb		Connect to a currently running (on localhost) rpd session. Commands run with --rpdb will trigger an rpdb session with any uncaught exceptions.

notebook

Run the IPython Notebook

stats

Print stats and max/min value of a given field (if requested), for one or more datasets (default field is density)

update

Update the yt installation to the most recent version

upload_image

Upload an image to imgur.com. Must be PNG.

AUTHORS

yt was primarily written by yt Development Team.