.. _dchain-tools:

Unofficial Python output parsing and processing module
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| The Python module “DCHAIN Tools” was written primarily to extract all information from the \*.act (and optionally \*.dcs) file into a Python dictionary object that can be easily manipulated. It is now available as a submodule of PHITS Tools, for which installation with ``pip install PHITS-Tools`` is recommended. Its documentation is available at:
| https://hratliff.com/DCHAIN-Tools/
| If using Python to analyze results, perform additional secondary calculations, or make plots, this module simplifies extraction of data from DCHAIN output files into a format usable in Python. It also provides several other useful DCHAIN-related functions.