graspkit

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graspkit is the stable foundation for reading, processing, and plotting GRASP atomic-structure calculation results.

Package structure

• graspkit.data_IO: typed GRASP text/binary loaders and stable CSF writers.
• graspkit.grasp_data_extractor: ASF, level, composition, transition, and mixing-coefficient post-processing.
• graspkit.CSFs_processor: CSF parsing, descriptors, and deterministic selection helpers.
• graspkit.utils: shared GRASP data models, environment detection, and quantum-number helpers.
• graspkit_plot: plotting and publication-style helpers.

Version 3.5.3 adds cumulative coupling-channel selection and batch plotting for selected ASFs. See the release notes and the CSF processing primitives.

Installation

Use this source checkout for 3.5.3 until the package is published.

Install graspkit-atomic from PyPI with Python 3.15 or newer. The distribution name is graspkit-atomic; its Python import packages are graspkit and graspkit_plot.

With uv

Use uv to manage the environment and dependencies of your own analysis project. For a new project:

uv init --python 3.15 atomic-analysis
cd atomic-analysis
uv add graspkit-atomic
uv run python -c "import graspkit; print(graspkit.__version__)"

For an existing uv project using Python 3.15 or newer, run uv add graspkit-atomic in its directory. This records the dependency in pyproject.toml, updates uv.lock, and installs it in the project's .venv. Use uv run python analysis.py to run your own analysis script; manual environment activation is not required. To pin a particular release, use uv add "graspkit-atomic==3.5.3".

You can also add the dependency to an existing pyproject.toml manually:

[project]
name = "atomic-analysis"
version = "0.1.0"
requires-python = ">=3.15"
dependencies = [
    "graspkit-atomic==3.5.3",
]

Then run uv sync in that project's directory to resolve dependencies and synchronize its environment. Commit pyproject.toml and uv.lock alongside your analysis code to record the dependency choices.

With pip

To install into an existing Python environment:

python -m pip install graspkit-atomic

Both methods provide the same Python API, including plotting. If your project also uses rCSFs, add it separately with uv add rcsfs. See INSTALL.md for local-wheel installation details.

Imports

from graspkit.data_IO import EnergyFileLoader, MixCoefLoader
from graspkit.grasp_data_extractor import format_energy_configurations
from graspkit.CSFs_processor import select_csf_indices_by_ci_squared_cutoff
from graspkit_plot import configure_matplotlib_for_publication

Windows terminal encoding

On Windows terminals that use a legacy code page, Rich output from loaders such as MixCoefLoader may raise UnicodeEncodeError when printing scientific labels such as cm⁻¹. Run Python in UTF-8 mode:

python -X utf8 your_script.py

For a one-line loader check:

python -X utf8 -c "from graspkit.data_IO import MixCoefLoader; MixCoefLoader(r'path\to\file.m').load()"

This option changes terminal text encoding only; it does not change how GRASP files are parsed.

Release preparation

See the release guide for local wheel/source builds and artifact validation and the manual publishing workflow.

License

GNU GPL version 3 (GPL-3.0-only). See LICENSE.