BPCMP.PY(1)

✨ NAME ✨

bpcmp.py — the little bestie that compares your ADIOS2 data files 💖

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so real talk, here's how you call her:

usage: bpcmp [-h] [-t TOLERANCE] [-p TOLPERC] [-s] [-v] file.bp [file.bp ...]

she's utility code, she compares the data inside BP files, she's iconic, she serves 💅 no cap.

🎀 positional arguments: 🎀

• file.bp — the whole list of BP files you want her to compare, queen. drop as many as you want, she'll handle it.

🦋 options: 🦋

• -h, --help — shows this help message and then dips, exits, gone, periodt.
• -t, --tolerance TOLERANCE — the tolerance for comparing values, like how much wiggle room a value gets before you call it different (default: 0).
• -p, --perc-tolerance TOLPERC — same energy but it's tolerance as a percentage of the values (default: 0).
• -s, --stats — compares the stats instead, so min/max and not the values themselves.
• -v, --verbose — literally every single different value gets printed, not just a summary. all of them. the whole tea. 😭

ngl this part matters: if more than two files are provided, all files are compared to the first. so the first file is the main character, everybody else is being measured against her 👑

that's the whole page bestie, she's short and she ate 💜

this was bpcmp.py, user commands section, dated April 2026 — yeah girl, from the future, obsessed 🫶🎀