Command-line interface

epyc includes a simple command-line tool for interacting with HDF5 notebooks. This allows you to edit notebooks without needing to write Python code, which can be good for curating datasets ready for publication.

Note

This interface is still at a very early stage of development, and is likely to change considerably in future releases.

The command is unimaginatively called epyc, and is a “container” command that provides access to sub-commands for different operations:

• Copying results sets between notebooks (epyc copy)
• Selecting a result set as current (epyc select)
• Delete a result set (epyc remove)
• Show the structure of a notebook (epyc show)

The details of each sub-command can be found using the --help option, for example:

epyc remove --help

A possible curation workflow would be to list all the results sets in a notebook using epyc show and then delete any that shouldn’t be published using epyc remove. Note that in keeping with epyc’s philosophy of immutability you can only remove whole result sets: there’s no way to remove individual experiments from a result set.