serpentTools.data.readDataFile¶

serpentTools.data.readDataFile(path, **kwargs)¶

Return a reader for the data file (test or example) file.

All additional keyword arguments will be passed to serpentTools.read().

Parameters: path (str) – The name of the file without any additional directory information
Returns: The reader that has processed this file and stored all the data
Return type: object
Raises: IOError: – If the file for path does not exist

Examples

Obtain a detector file from the examples

>>> import serpentTools
>>> d = serpentTools.readDataFile('bwr_det0.m')
>>> d.detectors.keys()
dict_keys(['spectrum', 'xymesh'])