What are the .p files generated in example 2 and how do I read them?

[mlidGWT]

Hello,

I am running example 02 using the *_loads input files, and I'm wondering what the .p files are that are generated within output/iteration_0/ including the timeseries/ subfolder? What is the recommended way to open/view/parse them? They seem to be a binary file when opened in a text editor.

Thanks in advance!

[dzalkind]

Hi Meg,

The .p pickle files are python binaries saved in WEIS to keep track of the time series and summary stats for each design iteration.

Some jupyter notebooks for parsing them can be found here in rev_DLCs_WEIS.ipynb.

You can disable their generation by setting save_timeseries and save_iterations to false. https://github.com/WISDEM/WEIS/blob/759962e8b26cd98729fbb6f4c20b1bd08e81701c/docs/inputs/weis_modeling_schema.rst#L56

I hope this helps.

Best, Dan