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Python wrapper for BMI libraries

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Python wrapper for BMI models
==========================================

This is ctypes wrapper for BMI models.

The BMI_ describes a low level interface for numerical models.

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Origin
------
This module is based on code from:

- CSMDS: https://csdms.colorado.edu/svn/bmi/trunk/python/bmi/BMI.py
- OpenEarth: http://svn.oss.deltares.nl/repos/openearthtools/trunk/python/OpenEarthTools
- 3Di: https://github.com/nens/python-subgrid

Models
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Several models implement the BMI_ interface.

- Subgrid: https://github.com/nens/python-subgrid
- Swan: https://github.com/SiggyF/chenopis
- XBeach: http://svn.oss.deltares.nl/repos/xbeach
- DFlow-FM: https://repos.deltares.nl/repos/ds/trunk/additional/unstruc/python/dflowfm

Prerequisites
-------------

We need a compiled BMI library (dll, so, dylib). There are a couple of common
locations where we look for it.::

.
~/local/lib
~/.local/lib
/opt/modelname/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib

A convention on linux is to install the library into ``/opt/modelname/``.
If you are using one of the models above, the modelname will be 3di, dflowfm, xbeach or swan

In case you have an alternative location, you can set the ``LD_LIBRARY_PATH``, (``DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH`` in OSX, ``PATH`` in windows)
environment variable, for example for 3Di::

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/user/svn/3di/trunk/subgridf90/src/.libs

(On windows the command is ``set`` instead of ``export``).

Setup
------

The virtualenv way (assumes virtualenvwrapper and virtualenv are installed)::

mkvirtualenv main
workon main
# get the version from pypi
pip install bmi
# or if you want to add your source directory to the path
pip install -e .

Combination Windows and Anaconda::

- Download + Install Anaconda
- Download and install the :faulthandler: package, from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#faulthandler
- Download and install the :NetCDF4: package, from http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#netcdf4
- Open an (Anaconda) Python-terminal (Press :[Ctrl]:+:[Alt]+:A:).
- pip.bat install -e ``<path to your bmi-python GIT working copy>``


Usage
-----

There are two ways to use the wrapper. A handy way is as a context
manager, so with a ``with`` statement::

with BMIWrapper(engine="model", configfile='/full/path/model.ini') as model:
# model is the actual library.
model.something()

The second way is by calling :meth:`start` and :meth:`stop` yourself and
using the :attr:`library` attribute to access the Fortran library::

wrapper = BMIWrapper(engine="model", configfile='/full/path/model.mdu')
wrapper.start()
wrapper.library.something()
...
wrapper.stop()

Note: Without the ``mdu`` argument, no model is loaded and you're free to
use the library as you want.


Convenience scripts
-------------------

The python bmi library contains a script that can be used as a command line runner for your model::

bmi-runner <engine> <configfile>

Links
--------
.. _BMI: http://csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/BMI_Description


Credits
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- Fedor Baart
- Gena Donchyts
- Jack Ha
- Stef Hummel
- Scott Peckham
- Reinout van Rees
- Sander Smits


Changelog of bmi-python
===================================================


2014-02-07
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- allow relative path for config_file
- fix exception when unicode is used as variable names

0.1 (2014-04-01)
----------------

- Split of code from python-subgrid and openearthtools in general BMI wrapper.

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