correcting help and default, some comments

processing/post/3Dvisualize.py

@@ -292,15 +292,15 @@ parser.add_option('--points',       dest='output_points', action='store_true',
 parser.add_option('--nopoints',     dest='output_points', action='store_false',
                                     help='omit VTK points file')
 parser.add_option('--separator',    dest='separator', type='choice', choices=sepChoices, metavar='string',
-                                    help='data separator (%s) [t]'%(','.join(map(str,sepChoices))))
+                                    help='data separator {%s} [t]'%(' '.join(map(str,sepChoices))))
-parser.add_option('--scaling',      dest='scaling', action='extend', type='string',
+parser.add_option('--scaling',      dest='scaling', action='extend', metavar = '<float LIST>',
-                                    help='scaling of fluctuation', metavar = '<float LIST>')
+                                    help='scaling of fluctuation')
 parser.add_option('-u', '--unitlength', dest='unitlength', type='float', metavar = 'float',
                                     help='set unit length for 2D model [%default]')
 parser.add_option('--filenodalcoords', dest='filenodalcoords', metavar = 'string',
                                     help='ASCII table containing nodal coords')
 parser.add_option('--labelnodalcoords', dest='labelnodalcoords', nargs=3,
-                                    help='labels of nodal coords in ASCII table %default', metavar = 'string string string')
+                                    help='labels of nodal coords in ASCII table {%s} '%(' '.join(map(str,%default))), metavar = 'string string string')
 parser.add_option('-l', '--linear', dest='linearreconstruction', action='store_true',
                                     help='use linear reconstruction of geometry [%default]')
                   
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ parser.set_defaults(undeformed = False)
 parser.set_defaults(unitlength = 0.0)
 parser.set_defaults(cell = True)
 parser.set_defaults(filenodalcoords = '')
-parser.set_defaults(labelnodalcoords = ['coord.x','coord.y','coord.z'])
+parser.set_defaults(labelnodalcoords = ('coord.x','coord.y','coord.z'))
 parser.set_defaults(linearreconstruction = False)
 
 sep = {'n': '\n', 't': '\t', 's': ' '}
@@ -528,8 +528,8 @@ for filename in args:
              'quadruple': 4,\
             }
 
-  structure = vtk.vtkIntArray()
+#  structure = vtk.vtkIntArray()
-  structure.SetName('Microstructures')
+#  structure.SetName('Microstructures')
   for datatype in fields.keys():
     print '\n%s:'%datatype,
     fields[datatype]['_order_'] = []

processing/post/addCauchy.py

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ for file in files:
   table.head_read()                                                                                 # read ASCII header info
   table.info_append(scriptID + '\t' + ' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))
 
+# --------------- figure out columns to process  ---------------------------------------------------
   active = defaultdict(list)
   column = defaultdict(dict)
   missingColumns = False

processing/post/addEhkl.py

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ parser.add_option('-d','--direction', \
                        '--hkl',         dest='hkl', type='int', nargs=3, metavar='int int int',
                                         help='direction of elastic modulus %default')
 parser.set_defaults(vector = [])
-parser.set_defaults(hkl = [1,1,1])
+parser.set_defaults(hkl = (1,1,1))
 
 (options,filenames) = parser.parse_args()
 

processing/post/postResults.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 import pdb, os, sys, gc, math, re, threading, time, struct, string
 import damask
-from optparse import OptionParser, OptionGroup, Option, SUPPRESS_HELP
+from optparse import OptionParser
 
 
 fileExtensions = { \
@@ -258,27 +258,6 @@ class MPIEspectral_result:    # mimic py_post result object
   def element_tensors(self):
     return self.N_element_tensors
       
-
-
-# -----------------------------
-class MyOption(Option):
-# -----------------------------
-# used for definition of new option parser action 'extend', which enables to take multiple option arguments
-# taken from online tutorial http://docs.python.org/library/optparse.html
-  
-  ACTIONS = Option.ACTIONS + ("extend",)
-  STORE_ACTIONS = Option.STORE_ACTIONS + ("extend",)
-  TYPED_ACTIONS = Option.TYPED_ACTIONS + ("extend",)
-  ALWAYS_TYPED_ACTIONS = Option.ALWAYS_TYPED_ACTIONS + ("extend",)
-
-  def take_action(self, action, dest, opt, value, values, parser):
-    if action == "extend":
-      lvalue = value.split(",")
-      values.ensure_value(dest, []).extend(lvalue)
-    else:
-      Option.take_action(self, action, dest, opt, value, values, parser)
-
-      
 # -----------------------------
 class backgroundMessage(threading.Thread):
 # -----------------------------
@@ -644,7 +623,7 @@ def SummarizePostfile(stat,where=sys.stdout,format='marc'):
 
 # --- input parsing
 
-parser = OptionParser(option_class=MyOption, usage='%prog [options] resultfile', description = """
+parser = OptionParser(option_class=damask.extendableOption, usage='%prog [options] resultfile', description = """
 Extract data from a .t16 (MSC.Marc) or .spectralOut results file. 
 
 List of output variables is given by options '--ns','--es','--et','--ho','--cr','--co'. 
@@ -661,7 +640,7 @@ User mappings need to be formulated in an incremental fashion for each new data
 and may use the current (incremental) result, b(ase), as well as the number, n(umber),
 of already processed data points for evaluation.
 
-""" + string.replace('$Id$','\n','\\n')
+""", version = string.replace('$Id$','\n','\\n')
 )
 
 parser.add_option('-i','--info', action='store_true', dest='info', \

processing/post/rotateData.py

@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ Uniformly scale values of scalar, vector, or tensor columns by given factor.
 """, version = scriptID)
 
 parser.add_option('-v','--vector',  dest = 'vector', action = 'extend', metavar = 'string',
-                                    help = 'column heading of vector to scale')
+                                    help = 'column heading of vector to rotate')
 parser.add_option('-t','--tensor',  dest = 'tensor', action = 'extend', metavar = 'string',
-                                    help = 'column heading of tensor to scale')
+                                    help = 'column heading of tensor to rotate')
 parser.add_option('-r', '--rotation',dest = 'rotation', type = 'float', nargs = 4, metavar = ' '.join(['float']*4),
                                     help = 'angle and axis to rotate data %default')
 parser.add_option('-d', '--degrees', dest = 'degrees', action = 'store_true',