Saving and Loading

IO

Nearly all objects in DESC have an object.save method to save the object as either an HDF5 (.h5) or Pickle .pkl format. The function desc.io.load can then be used to load a saved object and all of its data.

desc.io.load(load_from[, file_format])

Load any DESC object from previously saved file.

Examples

The desc.examples module contains a number of pre-computed equilibrium solutions to well known configurations or benchmark problems.

desc.examples.get(name[, data])	Get example equilibria and data.
desc.examples.listall()	Return a list of examples that DESC has.

VMEC

The desc.vmec.VMECIO class has a number of methods for interacting with VMEC equilibria, such as loading a VMEC solution and converting to a DESC Equilibrium, saving a DESC solution in the VMEC wout_*.nc format, and plotting comparisons between solutions.

desc.vmec.VMECIO()

Performs input from VMEC netCDF files to DESC Equilibrium and vice-versa.