PyDynamicReporting is the Python client library for Ansys Dynamic Reporting, previously documented as Nexus. Ansys Dynamic Reporting is a service for pushing items of many types, including images, text, 3D scenes, and tables, into a database, where you can keep them organized and create dynamic reports from them. When you use PyDynamicReporting to connect to an instance of Ansys Dynamic Reporting, you have a Pythonic way of accessing all capabilities of Ansys Dynamic Reporting.

Documentation for the latest stable release of PyDynamicReporting is hosted at PyDynamicReporting documentation.

In the upper right corner of the documentation's title bar, there is an option for switching from viewing the documentation for the latest stable release to viewing the documentation for the development version or previously released versions.

You can also view or download the PyDynamicReporting cheat sheet. This one-page reference provides syntax rules and commands for using PyDynamicReporting.

On the PyDynamicReporting Issues page, you can create issues to report bugs and request new features. On the Discussions page on the Ansys Developer portal, you can post questions, share ideas, and get community feedback.

To reach the project support team, email [email protected].

The pydynamicreporting package supports Python 3.9 through 3.12 on Windows and Linux. It is currently available on the PyPi repository.

To install the package, simply run

pip install ansys-dynamicreporting-core

Alternatively, the user can download the repository and locally build the package. Two modes of installation are available:

• Developer installation
• User installation

The code provided for both installation modes use a virtual environment.

To clone and install the pydynamicreporting package in development mode, run this code:

git clone https://github.com/ansys/pydynamicreporting
cd pydynamicreporting
pip install virtualenv
virtualenv venv  # create virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate  # (.\venv\Scripts\activate for Windows shell)
make install-dev  # install pydynamicreporting in editable mode

The preceding code creates an "editable" installation that lets you develop and test PyDynamicReporting at the same time.

To build and create a production-like installation for use, run this code:

make clean  # clean
make build   # build
# this replaces the editable installation done previously. If you don't want to replace,
# switch your virtual environments to test the new install separately.
make install
# you can skip the steps above and just do 'make all'
make smoketest  # test import

pre-commit is a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

To install the pre-commit package into your Git hooks, run this command:

pre-commit install

pre-commit now runs on every commit.

Each time you clone a project, installing the pre-commit package should always be the first thing that you do.

If you want to manually run all pre-commit hooks on a repository, run this command:

pre-commit run --all-files

The preceding command runs a bunch of formatters on your source files.

To run an individual hook, obtain the hook ID from the project's .pre-commit-config.yaml file and then run this code, where <hook_id> is the obtained ID:

pre-commit run <hook_id>

The first time pre-commit runs on a file, it automatically downloads, installs, and runs the hook.

To run GitHub Actions on your local desktop (recommended), install the act package.

To run a job, such as the docs job from the ci_cd.yml file, use this command, where docs is the job name:

act -j docs

Deploy and upload steps must always be ignored. If they are not ignored, before running GitHub Actions locally, add if: ${{ !env.ACT }} to the workflow step and commit this change if required.

To use PyDynamicReporting, you must have a locally installed and licensed copy of Ansys 2023 R2 or later.

This code shows how to start the simplest PyDynamicReporting session:

>>> import ansys.dynamicreporting.core as adr
>>> adr_service = adr.Service(ansys_installation=r"C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc\v232")
>>> ret = adr_service.connect()
>>> my_img = adr_service.create_item()
>>> my_img.item_image = "image.png"
>>> adr_service.visualize_report()

PyDynamicReporting is licensed under the MIT license.

PyDynamicReporting makes no commercial claim over Ansys whatsoever. This library extends the functionality of Ansys Dynamic Reporting by adding a Python interface to Ansys Dynamic Reporting without changing the core behavior or license of the original software. The use of PyDynamicReporting requires a legally licensed copy of an Ansys product that supports Ansys Dynamic Reporting.

To get a copy of Ansys, visit the Ansys website.