nest / nest-sionlib-reader

Reader for the binary data format produced by the SIONlib recording backend of the NEST simulator

nestio-tools

Installation

First install SIONlib; for instructions, see http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc/sionlib.

To compile and build nestio-tools, just enter

$ python3 setup.py install

Usage

The build will generate a dynamic library (.so). Set your PYTHONPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the directory that contains the generated .so file. Then, launch Python and simply

import nestio

You can process files created by NEST's SIONLogger as follows:

nestio.Reader("/home/jochen/data.sion")