SCITOOLS(1)

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>.