Script based usage of row

[luhtzia]

Hi everyone,
I've been using signac flow a lot inside my python files / jupyter notebooks to run operations based on a selection of signac jobs from a project. I would like to keep it this way, how would I do that using row? is there anything like a project.run function?
A summary of my setup you find in the screenshots attached

[joaander]

row only has a command line interface.

You can execute shell commands in jupyter like this:

! row show status

You can also execute row as a subprocess and parse the output if needed. The commands submit, show status, show directories (and others) all take a list of directories as arguments.

[luhtzia]

sure thats a workaround - I guess it only affects the running of operations. Other than that I can use the signac project like before to access all jobs and their attributes. I will give it a try - thanks for the quick reply!

[joaander]

Yes, you can certainly use signac to access your workspace from Python scripts while using row from the command line to submit actions and check their status. Give this a try, the UI was designed for this use-case.

The command line also has options that allow it to be used in shell scripts easily. For example, you can find all the submitted jobs for a given action and cancel them:

row show jobs --action two --short | xargs scancel