I got my answers on the Linux thread.
Thanks everyone :-)

Pyfa is awesome, but searching is slooowww.
pl0x use a faster algorithm?

I recently stumbled across Pyfa and found it to be pretty awesome. Since it's written in Python, I've actually had some ideas about toying with it in a Django project I'm working on.

Regarding that, I have a question. Does Pyfa provide low-level APIs to all its graphical features or is everything tightly knit and hard to decouple?

Anything not specific to the WX widget system is either in the service layer or in eos itself. You should be able to use eos to run just about any calculation you need.
Most of the "looks" of pyfa are however done directly in WX and it might be hard to take those over directly.


Edit: to clarify, eos is the calculation engine that powers pyfa, pyfa does no calculations on its own. It just displays the results it gets from eos

Sorry if this has been answered. I searched and found nothing. And I did not want to wade through 8 pages. I greatly prefer pyfa over eft, one feature of eft I do like however which I cannot seem to find in pyfa is a way to apply environments effects to. Fit, namely wormhole effects. Does it exist in pyfa?

I would like to submit a bug. I am getting an error when I am trying to get my characters skills thru API key.
"Unable to retrieve Justine Valentine's skills".

Any ideas?

The rest is AWESOME! :)

Use new API format?

Exception in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "threading.pyo", line 530, in __bootstrap_inner
File "service\market.pyo", line 91, in run
File "service\market.pyo", line 109, in processSearches
File "eos\db\gamedata\queries.pyo", line 56, in checkAndReturn
File "eos\db\gamedata\queries.pyo", line 188, in searchItems
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xb4' in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

I am receiving the below error from the nightly build on a clean install (though I did not do a registry clean yet). I am going to try the clean installa gain after doing a registry clean first this time around, but wanted to post this error just in case it may be useful for anyone.


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pyfa.py", line 51, in (module)
print "Unknown sqlalchemy version string format, skipping check"
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\pyfa\.\gui\mainFrame.py", line 38, in (module)
from gui.additionsPane import AdditionsPane
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\pyfa\.\gui\additionsPane.py", line 27, in (module)
from gui.gangView import GangView
File "C:\Program Files (x86)\pyfa\.\gui\gangView.py", line 20, in (module)
from wx.lib.scrolledpanel import ScrolledPanel
ImportError: No module named scrolledpanel

What would be the appropriate way of reporting bugs ? Pyfa keeps crashing for me when searching items in the market tab, with this exception from the pyfa.exe.log file:

I am receiving the below error from the nightly build on a clean install (though I did not do a registry clean yet). I am going to try the clean installa gain after doing a registry clean first this time around, but wanted to post this error just in case it may be useful for anyone.

Why is there no way to sort the modules into slot groups?

Question / possible bug:

All-V character, Abaddon ship. No implants/gang effects/etc. Only 2 mods fit: Quad Lif Fueled I Booster Rockets and Heavy Capacitor Booster II (with Cap Booster 400 loaded).

pyfa (latest winter preview) claims the following:
2m20sec cap with mwd running
10m30sec cap with mwd AND cap booster running

EFT (2.13.4) says 2m34sec with mwd running, 10m58sec with both mwd and cap booster.

Why the different result? Which is correct?

Because wxWidgets (UI toolkit we're using) is a gay.

When it comes to cap calculations, i'd better rely on pyfa's accurateness. We're using Entity's cap simulator, while EFT likely runs approximate calculations instead of full sim. For cap stable fittings, pyfa shows value slightly below your actual average cap, but still far more accurate.

I know few cases when it bugs out, but EFT goes mad there too; also i think you shouldn't face them in game.

Using only the MWD: ship first failed to cycle MWD due to lack of cap at 2m 31s.

sing the MWD and cap boosters (both started at same time): ship first failed to cycle MWD due to lack of cap at 9m 21s, and the last cap booster was consumed at 9m 5s.

CCP added an interesting feature to the fitting window on sisi: it tells you how long it will take your capacitor to deplete. It said 2m 30s for my abaddon fit, apparently ignoring the heavy cap booster. CCP wins in accuracy for the non-cap-boosted fit though, better than EFT or pyfa.

For pyfa: the program was too pessimistic about cap. 2m 20s is near the time I was able to start my last full MWD cycle, not the time my cap ran out or the time a mod first deactivated due to cap (even after activating MWD for the last time I had _some_ capacitor left, just not enough to cycle MWD again when needed). EFT and pyfa both assumed the abaddon had infinite cap booster charges. In reality, the abaddon has 525m3 of cargo space. The heavy cap booster 2 can load 10 charges of cap booster 400 and fit 32 in a non-expanded cargo hold. It just runs out of cap charges. This should probably be considered a bug, as the program could estimate max # of cap boosters available without getting more from a can. This problem is pretty obvious to anyone who has ever theorycrafted a setup with cap booster 800s (which are pretty bulky).

Hi, I've been a happy Pyfa-user for months -- but earlier today, pyfa stopped starting up.. I've tried unstall/reinstall (both 1.0.6-incarna) but no go.
Double click icon - hourglass mouse, then nothing happens. no pyfa process gets started.
Tried starting from commandline, but there's no output. Is there a log-file somewhere?

Hi, I've been a happy Pyfa-user for months -- but earlier today, pyfa stopped starting up.. I've tried unstall/reinstall (both 1.0.6-incarna) but no go.
Double click icon - hourglass mouse, then nothing happens. no pyfa process gets started.
Tried starting from commandline, but there's no output. Is there a log-file somewhere?

new engine

The UI feels really laggy because it does a full recalculation of every stat when adding a new module. Does the new engine change that?

-Liang

Yes, partial recalculations won't take more than few milliseconds, if not less