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

Overview

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: Register a user on the Hub: https://hub.yt-project.org/

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.

Releases

5 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 1 time.