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PyFoam under Windows 10

I am trying to use PyFoam on Windows 10 to postprocess my OpenFoam cases (I am running OpenFOAM on WSL and works perfectly)

I have installed PyFoam using pip

Code:

 C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani>pip install PyFoam   



Collecting PyFoam

Using cached PyFoam-2023.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl.metadata (3.6 kB) 



Requirement already satisfied: numpy in c:\users\giorgio.giorgiani\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from PyFoam) (1.26.4)

Requirement already satisfied: jinja2 in c:\users\giorgio.giorgiani\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from PyFoam) (3.1.3)

Requirement already satisfied: MarkupSafe>=2.0 in c:\users\giorgio.giorgiani\appdata\local\programs\python\python311\lib\site-packages (from jinja2->PyFoam) (2.1.5) 



Using cached PyFoam-2023.7-py2.py3-none-any.whl (697 kB) 



Installing collected packages: PyFoam 



Successfully installed PyFoam-2023.7

However when I write on the terminal pyFoamVersion.py I get the following error:

Code:

 C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani>pyFoamVersion.py

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\pyFoamVersion.py", line 9, in <module> 



   from PyFoam.ThirdParty.six import print_ 



File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\__init__.py", line 7, in <module> 



   from PyFoam.Infrastructure.Configuration import Configuration

File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Infrastructure\Configuration.py", line 85, in <module>

 "descriptionPath": eval('["'+path.curdir+'","'+path.join(userDirectory(),"caseBuilderDescriptions")+'","'+path.join(globalDirectory(),"caseBuilderDescriptions")+'"]'),

 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 



File "<string>", line 1

  [".","C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\.pyFoam\caseBuilderDescriptions","/etc\pyFoam\caseBuilderDescriptions"]

                                                                   ^

SyntaxError: (unicode error) 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape

I think there is a problem in the global path definition in Hardcoded.py

Code:

def globalDirectory():

    """:return: the global directory"""

    return path.join("/etc",_pyFoamDirName)

which is causing the crash due to the backslash (..?..)

Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks in advance

I found the solution:

https://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-e...etspyfoam/226/

Hope this helps someone in the future

Is there anyone who have experience using pyFoam under Windows?
I cannot manage this thing to work. After solving the previous problem, now I am facing this:

Code:

===================================================================== RESTART: C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\plotResiduals.py =====================================================================

PyFoam WARNING on line 382 of file C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Applications\PyFoamApplication.py : $WM_PROJECT_VERSION unset. PyFoam will not be able to determine the OpenFOAM-version and behave strangely 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\shutil.py", line 853, in move

    os.rename(src, real_dst)

PermissionError: [WinError 32] Le processus ne peut pas accéder au fichier car ce fichier est utilisé par un autre processus: 'C:\\Users\\giorgio.giorgiani\\Ubuntu\\rootfs\\home\\giorgio\\OpenFOAM\\2212\\tutorials\\incompressible\\icoFoam\\cavity\\cavity\\log.icofoam.analyzed\\pickledPlots.tmp' -> 'C:\\Users\\giorgio.giorgiani\\Ubuntu\\rootfs\\home\\giorgio\\OpenFOAM\\2212\\tutorials\\incompressible\\icoFoam\\cavity\\cavity\\log.icofoam.analyzed\\pickledPlots'



During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:



Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\plotResiduals.py", line 3, in <module>

    PlotWatcher.PlotWatcher(path)

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Applications\PlotWatcher.py", line 45, in __init__

    PyFoamApplication.__init__(self,

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Applications\PyFoamApplication.py", line 496, in __init__

    result=self.run()

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Applications\PlotWatcher.py", line 206, in run

    run.start()

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Execution\BasicWatcher.py", line 133, in start

    self.lineHandle(line)

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Execution\AnalyzedCommon.py", line 181, in lineHandle

    self.analyzer.analyzeLine(line)

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\LogAnalysis\FoamLogAnalyzer.py", line 213, in analyzeLine

    self.analyzers[nm].doAnalysis(line)

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\LogAnalysis\TimeLineAnalyzer.py", line 46, in doAnalysis

    self.notifyNewTime(m)

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\LogAnalysis\TimeLineAnalyzer.py", line 34, in notifyNewTime

    self.notify(float(m.group(2)))

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\LogAnalysis\LogLineAnalyzer.py", line 74, in notify

    f(*data)

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\LogAnalysis\FoamLogAnalyzer.py", line 147, in setTime

    listener.timeChanged()

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Execution\GnuplotRunner.py", line 350, in timeChanged

    StepAnalyzedCommon.timeChanged(self)

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Execution\StepAnalyzedCommon.py", line 43, in timeChanged

    self.picklePlots()

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\PyFoam\Execution\AnalyzedCommon.py", line 608, in picklePlots

    move(pickleFile+".tmp",pickleFile)

  File "C:\Users\giorgio.giorgiani\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\shutil.py", line 874, in move

    os.unlink(src)

PermissionError: [WinError 32] Le processus ne peut pas accéder au fichier car ce fichier est utilisé par un autre processus: 'C:\\Users\\giorgio.giorgiani\\Ubuntu\\rootfs\\home\\giorgio\\OpenFOAM\\2212\\tutorials\\incompressible\\icoFoam\\cavity\\cavity\\log.icofoam.analyzed\\pickledPlots.tmp'