SWIMpy

A python package to interact and test the ecohydrological model SWIM.

• Version: 0.5.0
• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~wortmann/swimpy

Quickstart

1. Setup python environment $ virtualenv swimpyenv and activate it $ source swimpyenv/bin/activate
2. Download and install SWIMpy: $ pip install git+https://gitlab.pik-potsdam.de/wortmann/swimpy.git
3. Setup your project in your model directory: $ swimpy setup
4. Check the commandline help swimpy -h, use your project in python scripts by importing swimpy and loading the project instance: project = swimpy.Project() or by starting the browser app $ swimpy browser start and navigate your browser to http://localhost:8000

Features

• Python API
• Documented commandline interface
• A central project settings file
• Easy per-project customisations and extensions
• Record runs with parameter changes, result indicators and data files
• Simple browser app to browse saved model runs and show plots
• Easy parameter reading/setting and output file reading
• Result visualisation with reusable matplotlib plot functions
• Interface to GRASS database
• Linking to the evoalgos multiobjective evolutionary optimization package