[Radiance-general] python

[Guglielmetti, Robert]

Just to add to the mix, I've started playing with Ruby and like it a lot,
similar functionality to Python, though certainly a lot less add-ons
available than Python (such as SciPy and NumPY). But, SketchUp's API is in
Ruby, which is a nice way to link a 3D drawing program with Radiance, as
Thomas Bleicher has done with his su2rad plug-in...

On 7/9/10 8:10 AM, "Jack de Valpine" <jedev at visarc.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I think that for most types of Radiance automation/scripting, I would
> suggest the following:
> 
>     * make - for automating basic repetitive tasks including calls to
>       rad or other radiance programs
>     * perl or python - offer robust programming capabilities. Both are
>       quiet industrial strength, although I have been a perl person for
>       a long time, my impression is that coding in python is perhaps a
>       bit cleaner (shocked gasps from those who know me...)
> 
> This being said, a few comments on the following:
> 
>     * bash/csh - if you end up needing to reference/modify any of the
>       scripts that are included with the Radiance distribution then you
>       will need to get some understanding of these scripting languages
>     * bc/awk/sed - it has been a long time since I have had to deal with
>       any of these, I would suggest that it would be easier to do in
>       perl/python
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Jack
> 
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> 
> Thomas Bleicher wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Jia Hu <hujia06 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> Hello:
>>> 
>>> In Ubuntu, I do not have much knowledge of shell programming about bash.  Is
>>> that a good choice to use python script to run Radiance (I did find some
>>> posts about using python to run Radiance programs) if I hope to run other
>>> numeric simulation at the same time?
>>>    
>> 
>> If you only want to run multiple Radiance processes at the same time
>> or automate your calculation processes BASH may be a better choice
>> because it is your standard environment in Unix and so the commands
>> are identical on the command line and in a script. However, for anything
>> more complex (even as simple as floating point arithmetic) you will need
>> other Unix tools like bc, awk and sed which means you will have to
>> learn their command syntax, too.
>> 
>> If you plan on post-processing your results (calculate average, create plots
>> or summary reports) then I would recommend Python. It's a powerful
>> language but still easy to learn. Once you have worked out how to read
>> files or how to use the "subprocess" module to run Radiance commands
>> you can do everything you could do with BASH.
>> 
>> For both there are good learning resources available on the net and
>> they are a common choice to control Radiance simulations. So you
>> can't really go wrong here.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Thomas
>> 
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