Expression selection
Dear all
I want to know whether the expression selection function can adopt the arrays using python?
For example, I used a script like this
# Expression selection:
list = [2693, 5317, 2109, 2143]
for i in range(len(list)):
pipeline.modifiers.append(ExpressionSelectionModifier(expression = 'ParticleIdentifier==list[i]'))
And it results in
RuntimeError: Export of animation frame 0 failed, because data pipeline evaluation did not succeed. Status message: Modifier 'Expression selection' reported: Unexpected token "[i] " found at position 24.
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
please note that expression is a string. Analogous to using an Expression Selection modifier in the Desktop application with the following Boolean expression,
ParticleIdentifier == 2693 || ParticleIdentifier == 5317 || ParticleIdentifier == 2109 || ParticleIdentifier == 2143
you can do the following:
# Expression selection:
list = [2693, 5317, 2109, 2143]
expression = f'ParticleIdentifier=={list[0]}'
for i in range(1, len(list)):
expression += f' || ParticleIdentifier=={list[i]}'
pipeline.modifiers.append(ExpressionSelectionModifier(expression = expression))
but you can also use directly create your particle selection like this:
data.particles_.create_property("Selection", data = numpy.isin(data.particles.identifiers, list))
Please also have a look at https://www.ovito.org/docs/current/reference/pipelines/modifiers/expression_select.html and https://www.ovito.org/docs/current/python/introduction/data_manipulation.html#creating-new-properties
-Constanze
Dear Constanze
Thanks a lot for your kind reply and I have solved this problem!
Regards
Lucia
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