Wire Cell Toolkit Python

What’s here.

This package holds some Python modules that support Wire Cell Toolkit. Currently this is a stand-alone package that does not depend directly on the C++ packages of WCT.

Some of the functionality provided includes converters and generators of major WCT input data files including:

• field response functions
• wire geometry
• diagnostic plots

Installation

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ cd wire-cell-python
$ pip install -r requirements/base.txt
$ pip install -r requirements/img.txt
$ pip install -r requirements/sigproc.txt
$ pip install -e .

If you have trouble installing mayavi via pip consider installing it as a system package and then making the venv with:

$ python3 -m venv venv --system-site-packages

Use

In fresh shells must repeat:

$ source venv/bin/activate

Others

ZIO

The ZIO Python package can provide some functionality that WCT may make use of (flow/domo brokers). It’s installation is somewhat irregular so a script is provided to help. It will also install the wirecell Python module.

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
$ ./zioinst.sh

Command line interfaces

Each main wirecell.<module> exposes most of its functionality via a command line interface named wirecell-<module>. For example:

$ wirecell-sigproc --help
Usage: wirecell-sigproc [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Wire Cell Signal Processing Features

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  convert-garfield              Convert an archive of a Garfield fileset...
  plot-garfield-track-response

If your shell supports it, see what commands are available with TAB completion:

$ wirecell-<TAB><TAB>

Documentation

In addition to the online -h/--help for main and sub commands, some notes on specific commands are in docs/.