PyHELICS

Python HELICS bindings

pip install helics

If you wish to get additional functionality in the CLI (experimental), you can install it using the following:

pip install 'helics[cli]'

Documentation

To use the project:

import helics as h
h.helicsGetVersion()

See https://docs.helics.org for more information about how to use HELICS.

This package uses cffi to provide a Python interface to the HELICS C API.

By default, when you install from PyPI, the version number of the package will match the version of HELICS that is installed. For example, if you run the following:

pip install helics

You will also get precompiled binaries of HELICS for your platform if they exist. If they don’t exist, a source distribution will attempt to be built and installed. The user can also provide the location of the binaries if they wish to do so. For more information, see https://python.helics.org/installation.

Debugging

Please share the output of the following command when creating an issue:

$ python -c "import helics as h; import json; print(json.dumps(h.helicsGetSystemInfo(), indent=4, sort_keys=True))"

Citation

General citation for HELICS: T. Hardy, B. Palmintier, P. Top, D. Krishnamurthy and J. Fuller, “HELICS: A Co-Simulation Framework for Scalable Multi-Domain Modeling and Analysis,” in IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3363615, available at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10424422