---
name: "scitools"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "python-scitools"
version: "0.9.0-1"
release: "Debian 8 (Jessie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/scitools"
---

# scitools(1)

run a SciTools command

## NAME

scitools - run a SciTools command

## SYNOPSIS

**scitools** command \[*OPTIONS*\]

## DESCRIPTION

The **scitools** script takes a command and runs a corresponding utility. The available commands are listed below.

- **file2interactive**

  Utility for taking a set of Python statements in a file and creating the corresponding interactive Python shell session.

- **floatdiff**

  Script for examining differences in regression tests involving floating-point numbers. Used in \[1\].

- **regression**

  Simple front-end script to SciTools' Regression module. Used in \[1\].

- **ps2mpeg**

  Utility for turning a set of PostScript files into an MPEG movie, using mpeg\_encode or ppmtompeg.

- **profiler**

  Script for simplifying the execution of Python's profiling tools. Used in \[1\].

- **rename**

  Script for renaming a set of files by substituting one string or regular expression with another.

- **subst**

  Script for subsituting a phrase by another in a set of files. Accepts regular expressions. Treated in \[1\].

- **replace**

  Script for subsituting a phrase by another in a set of files. Does not use regular expressions, just plain text (well suited for substituting text with much use of backslashes, curly braces, and other special characters in regular expressions (e.g., LaTeX text).

- **movie**

  Script for creating a movie file from a sequence of image files (frames). By default an HTML file for displaying the image (PNG) files are made.

- **pyreport**

  Processes a Python script and pretty prints the results using LateX. If the script uses show() commands (from scitools.easyviz) they are caught by pyreport and the resulting graphs are inserted in the output pdf. Comments lines starting with "#!" are interpreted as rst lines and pretty printed accordingly in the pdf.

- \[1\] H. P. Langtangen: Python Scripting for Computational Science. Third

  edition, second printing. Springer, 2009.

## OPTIONS

- **-h**, **--help**

  Show usage for all commands and exit.

## BUGS

- Send comments, questions, bug reports etc. to scitools@googlegroups.com.

  ## LICENSE

SciTools is licensed under the new BSD license.

## AUTHOR

SciTools is written by Hans Petter Langtangen \<hpl@simula.no\>, Johannes Ring \<johannr@simula.no\>, Ilmar Wilbers \<ilmarw@simula.no\>, and Rolv E. Bredesen \<rolv@simula.no\>. This manual page is written by Johannes Ring \<johannr@simula.no\>.