[Spice_discussion] Python support for SPICE

[Chris Piker]

Tom

I've updated the pspice web pages to make it easier for people to see 
which functions have been wrapped, and what the exact call interface 
looks like:

Module doc link:
   http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~cwp/index.html?pspice_help

Top level link:
   http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/~cwp/index.html?pspice

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Chris


On 09/26/2014 07:45 AM, Bridgman, William T. wrote:
> Chris,
>
> What level of support does your wrapper provide for the SPICE interface?
>
> I was just taking a  look to see if it might be under more active development and a suitable replacement for the existing wrapper I use (linked earlier).  That version at the very least supports furnsh, utc2et, et2utc, spkpos (the ones I actively use in my codes).
>
> Looking at your source tree, it’s unclear if your wrapper is more complete.
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> Can you clarify?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
> On Sep 25, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Chris Piker <chris-piker at uiowa.edu> wrote:
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>> Bill Thompson
>>
>> There have been two unofficial python wrappers generated for spice. Here's mine if you want it:
>>
>> https://saturn.physics.uiowa.edu/svn/util/python/trunk/pspice/
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>> And I know there is another one floating around.  I'll be curious to hear if we will be getting an official pySpice some day.
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>> Chris
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>> On 09/25/2014 05:35 PM, William Thompson wrote:
>>> The Solar Orbiter project is planning on using SPICE kernels for their
>>> orbit and attitude files.  Solar scientists have traditionally used IDL
>>> for their data analysis, and SPICE is well supported in IDL.  However,
>>> there's a desire in a number of teams to start using Python instead.
>>> What's the status of incorporating the SPICE software into Python?
>>>
>>> Bill Thompson
>>>
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