PyHarm (Python API)#
This chapter documents the Python interface.
PyHarm is a Python wrapper for CHarm. It relies on the Python’s ctypes module and is fully
integrated with NumPy to work easily and efficiently
with arrays. Similarly as CHarm, PyHarm is divided into several modules,
comprising classes and functions with conceptually similar tasks, such as
spherical harmonic analysis or spherical harmonic synthesis. Source files of
the wrapper are located in wrap/pyharm. The wrapper is hand-written and
follows the object-oriented paradigm of Python in order to provide a Pythonic
feeling (sort of). Therefore, there is no simple one-to-one relation between
CHarm and PyHarm.
Next follows the documentation of the PyHarm modules in double precision. There are only a few easy-to-remember systematic differences in PyHarm’s API when working in single precision, so separate documentation is omitted. The list of the differences is given in PyHarm in single precision.