PyPartMC is a Pythonic interface to PartMC, a stochastic, particle-resolved
aerosol model implemented in Fortran. Both PyPartMC and PartMC are free, libre,
and open-source. PyPartMC reduces the number of steps and mitigates the effort
necessary to install and utilize the resources of PartMC. Without PyPartMC,
setting up PartMC requires: working with UNIX shell, providing Fortran and C
libraries, and performing standard Fortran and C source code configuration,
compilation and linking. This can be challenging for those less experienced
with computational research or those intending to use PartMC in environments
where provision of UNIX tools is less straightforward (e.g., on Windows).
PyPartMC offers a single-step installation process of PartMC and all
dependencies through the pip Python package manager on Linux, macOS, and
Windows. This allows streamlined access to the unmodified and versioned Fortran
internals of the PartMC codebase from both Python and other interoperable
environments (e.g., Julia through PyCall). Consequently, users of PyPartMC can
setup, run, process and visualize output of PartMC simulations using a single
general-purpose programming language