FISPACT II output parser

FISPACT-II output parser

As stated the primary purpose of pypact is to parse the .out file giving the user direct access to the simulation data. The philosophy of pypact is to be able to serialize and deserialize all this data to JSON directly. With JSON being human readable, lightweight, hugely popular, and very well supported it serves as an upgrade to the standard .out file.

Whilst a simple command line tool allows files to be converted from .out to .json in one line, as shown below, the power of pypact lies using the library directly.

fispactconverter.py run.out run.json

Command line tool usage

usage: fispactconverter.py [-h] outputfile jsonoutputfile

Fispact Output Converter

positional arguments:
  outputfile      The fispact output (.out) file to be read
  jsonoutputfile  The fispact output file in JSON format to be written

optional arguments:
  -h, --help      show this help message and exit

Using pypact

As shown above you can simply run the command line tool and not use anything more from the package if you so wish. Or if you're feeling more adventurous and would like to integrate it into a current project or script you can import the package.

import pypact as pp

filename = "fispact_ii_run_output_file.out"

with pp.Reader(filename) as output:
    # do your analysis here