swmmtoolbox - Overview

The swmmtoolbox is a Python script to read the Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) version 5 binary output files.

Requirements

Python - of course, version 3.7+.

Installation

The swmmtoolbox is available via pip or conda.

pip

pip install swmmtoolbox

conda

conda install -c conda-forge swmmtoolbox

Usage

Command Line

Just run ‘swmmtoolbox –help’ to get a list of subcommands and options:

usage: swmmtoolbox [-h]
                   {about,catalog,extract,listdetail,listvariables,stdtoswmm5}
                   ...

positional arguments:
  {about,catalog,extract,listdetail,listvariables,stdtoswmm5}
    about               Display version number and system information.
    catalog             List the catalog of objects in output file.
    extract             Get the time series data for a particular object and
                        variable.
    listdetail          List nodes and metadata in output file.
    listvariables       List variables available for each type.
    stdtoswmm5          Take the toolbox standard format and return SWMM5
                        format.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

Python API

Simply import swmmtoolbox:

import swmmtoolbox

ntsd = swmmtoolbox.extract("tests/frutal.out", "node,45,Hydraulic_head")