brightway-lca/brightway-olca

Library for interacting with openLCA via the openLCA IPC Server

brightway-olca

A small library that connects brightway to the openLCA IPC Server.

Installation

Install this library from github using

pip install git+https://github.com/brightway-lca/brightway-olca.git

Setup

In order to use this library, [openLCA](https://www.openlca.org/) needs to be running and the openLCA IPC Server needs to be active. The server can be activated in openLCA under Tools>Developer Tools>IPC Server.

Usage

This library exposes the OLCAClient class that can be used to read the database currently opened in openLCA.

get_olca_database_by_type(exchange_types: ExchangeType)

This method returns a list of exchanges by type that can be used for integration of the openLCA database into brightway.

Example usage:

from bw_olca import olca_client

from bw_olca.exchange_types import ExchangeType

client = olca_cilent.OLCAClient()

types_list = [ExchangeType.PROCESS]

results = client.get_olca_database_by_type(types_list, verbose=True)

Use the Example Notebook in the docs folder for an in-depth example of how to use this library.

Note

This project has been set up using PyScaffold 4.0.2. For details and usage information on PyScaffold see https://pyscaffold.org/.