EnergyPlus API Helper Scripts

This project is a small library of helper functionality and, more importantly, demo scripts, for interacting with the EnergyPlus API. The EnergyPlus Python API is not on PyPi (as of now), it simply comes with the EnergyPlus installation. This library makes that process a bit easier, and also offers a set of demos in the energyplus_api_helpers/demos folder.

A super minimal example using the helper class here:

from pathlib import Path
from energyplus_api_helpers.import_helper import EPlusAPIHelper

helper = EPlusAPIHelper(Path('/path/to/EnergyPlus-22-2-0'))
api = helper.get_api_instance()
state = api.state_manager.new_state()
return_value = api.runtime.run_energyplus(state, ['-D', helper.path_to_test_file('5ZoneAirCooled.idf')])

In this example, the helper class is constructed simply by pointing it to a valid EnergyPlus install path (or build/Products directory for developers). The helper class is then used to get an EnergyPlus API instance, which is in turn used to create a new EnergyPlus "state". Finally, EnergyPlus is executed with some basic command line arguments passed into the run_energyplus function of the main EnergyPlus API.

Code Quality

Code is checked for style using GitHub Actions.

Releases

When a release is tagged, a GitHub Action workflow will create a Python wheel and upload it to the PyPi server.

To install into an existing Python environment, execute pip install energyplus_api_helpers