NAME

       scitools - run a SciTools command

SYNOPSIS

       scitools command [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

       The  scitools  script  takes  a  command  and  runs a corresponding utility. The available
       commands are listed below.

       file2interactive
              Utility for taking  a  set  of  Python  statements  in  a  file  and  creating  the
              corresponding interactive Python shell session.

       floatdiff
              Script  for  examining  differences  in  regression  tests involving floating-point
              numbers. Used in [1].

       regression
              Simple front-end script to SciTools' Regression module. Used in [1].

       ps2mpeg
              Utility for turning a set of PostScript files into an MPEG movie, using mpeg_encode
              or ppmtompeg.

       profiler
              Script for simplifying the execution of Python's profiling tools. Used in [1].

       rename Script for renaming a set of files by substituting one string or regular expression
              with another.

       subst  Script for subsituting a phrase by another in  a  set  of  files.  Accepts  regular
              expressions. Treated in [1].

       replace
              Script  for subsituting a phrase by another in a set of files. Does not use regular
              expressions, just plain text (well suited for substituting text with  much  use  of
              backslashes,  curly  braces,  and  other  special characters in regular expressions
              (e.g., LaTeX text).

       movie  Script for creating a movie file from  a  sequence  of  image  files  (frames).  By
              default an HTML file for displaying the image (PNG) files are made.

       pyreport
              Processes  a Python script and pretty prints the results using LateX. If the script
              uses show() commands (from scitools.easyviz) they are caught by  pyreport  and  the
              resulting  graphs are inserted in the output pdf. Comments lines starting with "#!"
              are interpreted as rst lines and pretty printed accordingly in the pdf.

       [1] H. P. Langtangen: Python Scripting for Computational Science. Third
              edition, second printing. Springer, 2009.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
              Show usage for all commands and exit.

BUGS

       Send comments, questions, bug reports etc. to scitools@googlegroups.com.

LICENSE

       SciTools is licensed under the new BSD license.

AUTHOR

       SciTools  is  written  by  Hans   Petter   Langtangen   <hpl@simula.no>,   Johannes   Ring
       <johannr@simula.no>,    Ilmar   Wilbers   <ilmarw@simula.no>,   and   Rolv   E.   Bredesen
       <rolv@simula.no>. This manual page is written by Johannes Ring <johannr@simula.no>.

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