Python API
==========
FLASH comes bundled with a Python library to aid in data analysis and workflow
management of FLASH simulations.  As such, these tools provide a dynamic, high
level mechanism for dealing with common FLASH use cases in a scalable way.

Installation
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These tools may be found in the ``tools/`` subdirectory.  A normal setup.py 
file is provied::

    cd tools/
    python setup.py install --user

This gives the user a ``flash`` namespace::

    import flash

Dependencies
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Based on which subpackages the user desires, the following dependecies may 
be required:

* `yt <http://yt-project.org/>`_
* `numpy <http://numpy.scipy.org/>`_
* `scipy <http://www.scipy.org/>`_
* `pytables <http://pytables.github.com/>`_
* `python 2.7 <http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.7/>`_

Contents
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.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1

    analysis
    output
    dsl/index
    flmake/index