phono3py 4.3.1

This is the phono3py module.

phono3py

A simulation package of phonon-phonon interaction related properties mainly written in python. Phono3py user documentation is found at http://phonopy.github.io/phono3py/.

Mailing list for questions

Usual phono3py questions should be sent to phonopy mailing list (https://sourceforge.net/p/phonopy/mailman/).

Dependency

See pyproject.toml.

Development

The development of phono3py is managed on the main branch of the github phono3py repository.

• GitHub issues are the place to discuss phono3py issues.

• GitHub pull requests are the place to request merging source code.

• Releases are published to PyPI by pushing a v* tag, which triggers the release.yml GitHub Actions workflow (gated by a manual approval).

• Formatting rules are found in pyproject.toml.

• Not strictly, but VSCode's settings.json may be written like below

  "ruff.lint.args": [
      "--config=${workspaceFolder}/pyproject.toml",
  ],
  "[python]": {
      "editor.defaultFormatter": "charliermarsh.ruff",
      "editor.codeActionsOnSave": {
          "source.organizeImports": "explicit"
      }
  },
  

• Use of pre-commit (https://pre-commit.com/) is encouraged.

  • Installed by pip install pre-commit, conda install pre_commit or see https://pre-commit.com/#install.
  • pre-commit hook is installed by pre-commit install.
  • pre-commit hook is run by pre-commit run --all-files.

Documentation

Phono3py user documentation is written using python sphinx. The source files are stored in doc directory. Please see how to write the documentation at doc/README.md.

How to run tests

Tests are written using pytest. To run tests, pytest has to be installed. The tests can be run by

% pytest