I've heard of some people using Python with DIgSILENT's PowerFactory product (A competitor for PSS/E).
So my question is have you ever used Python and PowerFactory, or would you want to?
If you can, post some example code that you might run.
(edit) I have seen that PowerFactory has their own language that is used for scripting, what does that look like?
I have used Python with PowerFactory, but only since the recently released Version 15.1.
You can run python scripts from within and outside PowerFactory. Outside you first get Python to start PowerFactory.
From within PowerFactory the scripts are quite straight forward. For example:
import powerfactory
app = powerfactory.GetApplication()
app.PrintPlain('Hello World')
Will write "Hello World' to the output box in PowerFactory. Running Python from the outside to run PowerFactory is a little more complicated, but not too bad.
PowerFactory's own language is called DLP. It is like C, but not quite. It can be a little restrictive. You are limited to its inbuilt data types which aren't particularly comprehensive.
Theoretically it can be interfaced with to outside PowerFactory, but this is limited - you cannot run DLLs that open dialog boxes.
I've just started playing with the python module in Digsilent Powerfactory
You'll have to figure out the following link. My karma is too low apparently.
github.com/cmoman/thrreadingdigsilent/blob/master/threadingex1.py
The script above is written in PyQt and is used to drive PowerFactory from an external script. I was tinkering with threading so that my GUI would remain responsive while PowerFactory was solving a load flow etc. It is more complicated that it needs to be.
It's helpful to keep the DigSilent object alive (instantiate it the main loop) since the logging in and setting up the model takes quite a bit of time. If you read my code you'll see I instantiated in the main loop and then pass it to the MainWindow and all the way to the thread.
Cheers Chris
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