reynoldscem / entropy-calculator

Small command line utility to calculate entropy of discrete distributions.

entropy-calculator

Small command line utility to calculate entropy of discrete distributions. Works for normalised or unnormalised distributions, and accepts input from files or standard input (stdin). Remember you can send indicate the end of stdin by pressing <C-d> on a new line!

usage: entropy.py [-h] [--no-filenames] [-c] [--precision PREC] [--base BASE]
                  [FILES [FILES ...]]

Utility for calculating entropy of (un)normalised probability distributions.

positional arguments:
  FILES                 Files to read. One value per line. Blank lines
                        ignored. - is stdin. If no files given read from
                        stdin. (default: None)

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --no-filenames        Don't print filenames. (default: False)
  -c, --check-normalised
                        Don't print filenames. (default: False)
  --precision PREC      Precision for printing. (default: 3)
  --base BASE           Base for logarithm. (default: 2.718281828459045)