numba-xraylib 0.2.0

A numba compatible wrapper of the xraylib library.

numba-xraylib

Use xraylib in numba nopython functions.

Installation

Clone the repository and submodules (with --recurse-submodules) then install with:

pip install .

Will be uploaded to PyPi shortly.

Usage

Simply install xraylib_numba in your environment to use xraylib and xraylib_np in nopython mode:

import xraylib
import xraylib_np
from numba import njit
import numpy as np

@njit
def AtomicWeight(Z):
    return xraylib.AtomicWeight(Z), xraylib_np.AtomicWeight(np.array([Z]))

print(AtomicWeight(1))  # (1.01, array([1.01]))

Currently, functions that have non-numeric arguments or returns are unsupported. If you know how to pass strings from numba to c please let me know.