PlasmaPy: A plasma physics Python package

Welcome to the plasmapy package, an open source community-developed Python package for the plasma community. Documentation is available in the docstrings and online at https://docs.plasmapy.org (accessible also using the online_help() function).

Sub-Packages & Modules

diagnostics	The diagnostics subpackage contains functionality for defining diagnostic parameters and processing data collected by diagnostics, synthetic or experimental.
dispersion	The dispersion subpackage contains functionality associated with plasma dispersion relations, solvers and analytical solutions.
formulary	The formulary subpackage contains commonly used formulae from plasma science.
particles	The plasmapy.particles subpackage provides access to information about atoms, isotopes, ions, and other particles.
plasma
simulation	Module containing plasma simulation tools.
utils	Package of functions and classes used to develop clean, readable, and informative code.

Functions

online_help(query)

Search the online PlasmaPy documentation for the given query from plasmapy.org Opens the results in the default web browser.

Variables

__version__	PlasmaPy version string
__citation__	PlasmaPy citation instructions