Flow360

How to use Flow360 python client

install

Using pip (recommended)

pip install flow360

install pre-release version

pip install -U flow360 --pre

client config api-key

Get your api-key from flow360.simulation.cloud

You can set your api-key by ONE of the following methods:

1. Set globaly for your acount: flow360 configure will store api-key in ~/.flow360
2. In shell:
   • Bash/Zsh shell (Linux or Mac): export FLOW360_APIKEY="my api-key"
   • Powershell (Windows): $Env:FLOW360_APIKEY="my api-key"
3. In python script: os.environ["FLOW360_APIKEY"] = "my api-key" before or after import flow360

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NOTE

Environment FLOW360_APIKEY variable takes precedence before Flow360 configure file generated by flow360 configure

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run examples:

1. Get examples from this repository:
   1. git clone https://github.com/flexcompute/Flow360.git
   2. cd Flow360/examples
2. run python case_results.py

Development

setup

0. clone repo
1. Install poetry pip install poetry
2. Activate poetry shell poetry shell
3. Install dependencies: poetry install

run examples

• python examples/case_results.py
• You can also run examples without activating shell:
  poetry run python examples/case_results.py

check in

1. poetry run pytest -rA
2. black . - performs auto-formatting
3. isort . - sorts imports
4. pylint flow360 --rcfile .pylintrc - checks code style
5. pytest tests --cov-report=html --cov=flow360 && open htmlcov/index.html - see test coverage report

Documentation Requirements

If you want to install the requirements to locally build the documentation you can run:

poetry install -E docs

Alternatively, you can also install the extra in any pip-controlled venv:

pip install -e .[docs]