Python Support

In the python folder we also supply a f2py and meson based system that will enable use of (some of) the functionality in python. This can be installed from the python folder using

pip install -e . --no-build-isolation

or via a conda environment file like:

name: snakeTesting
channels:
  - conda-forge
dependencies:
  - conda-forge::python=3.12.9
  - conda-forge::fpm            # Fortran package manager
  - conda-forge::meson-python   # For building fortran for use in python
  - conda-forge::ninja
  - conda-forge::pip
  - conda-forge::numpy
  - pip:
       - ../../libs/FLUE_Lat/python

where the repository has been cloned inside the ../../libs directory (this can also be done with git submodule).

Available routines are:

IO Routines:

write[ILDG/OQCD](filename, U, NS, NT)read[ILDG/OQCD/CSSM](filename, NS, NT)

plaquette routines:

plaq(U)/splaq(U)/tplaq(U) returns the average of all plaquettes, space-space plaquettes and space-time plaquettes respectively.

'gauge' routines:

stoutSmearLinks(U, rho, nweeps) returns a new copy of the gaugefield which has been stout-linked smeared (spatial links).

The IO routines return a numpy array of type double precision complex, of shape (NT, NS, NS, NS, 4, 3, 3). Note this is not the same as the Fortran, the translation is done in c_wrapper/FLUE_c.f90. This is so that it matches i.e. lyncs_io.

This f2py and meson build approach is inspired by fortran_meson_py by Salvador Brandolin with thanks to the Fortran-Lang Discourse

Python Support ​

Python Support