[Spice_discussion] Python support for SPICE

[Bridgman, William T.]

Chris,

Excellent.

I’ll have to take a closer look.  I suspect if I build this, I can do an

import pspice as spice

and it might work almost transparent to the other package.

Thanks,
Tom
On Sep 26, 2014, at 1:25 PM, Chris Piker <chris-piker at uiowa.edu> wrote:

> 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
> 
> --
> 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.
>> 
>> Can you clarify?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>> On Sep 25, 2014, at 6:50 PM, Chris Piker <chris-piker at uiowa.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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/
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> --
>>> Chris
>>> 
>>> 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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Dr. William T."Tom" Bridgman               Scientific Visualization Studio
Global Science & Technology, Inc.          NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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