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YT(1) User Commands YT(1)

NAME

yt - command-line tool allowing to access some of yt's basic functionality without opening a python interpreter.

DESCRIPTION

The tools is a collection of subcommands. These can quickly making plots of slices and projections through a dataset, updating yt's codebase, print basic statistics about a dataset, launch an IPython notebook session, and more.

yt command line arguments

optional arguments:

show this help message and exit
Set configuration option, in the form param=value
Paste traceback to paste.yt-project.org
Paste a detailed traceback with local variables to paste.yt-project.org
Display detailed traceback.
--rpdb
Enable remote pdb interaction (for parallel debugging).
Run in MPI-parallel mode (must be launched as an MPI task)
--version
show program's version number and exit

subcommands:

Print help message
Report a bug in yt
Register a user on the Hub: http://hub.yt-project.org/
Get some information about the yt installation
Get some information about the yt installation
Load a single dataset into an IPython instance
Serve a plot in a GMaps-style interface
Post a script to an anonymous pastebin
Print an online pastebin to STDOUT for local use.
Upload an IPython notebook to hub.yt-project.org.
Create a set of images
Connect to a currently running (on localhost) rpd session. Commands run with --rpdb will trigger an rpdb session with any uncaught exceptions.
Run the IPython Notebook
Print stats and max/min value of a given field (if requested), for one or more datasets (default field is density)
Update the yt installation to the most recent version
Upload an image to imgur.com. Must be PNG.

AUTHORS

yt was primarily written by yt Development Team.

SEE ALSO

Full documentation for the yt commandline can be found at http://yt-project.org/doc/

August 2015 yt 3.2.3-1