question about ssc.data_set_table

Below  is a test example I wrote. When I tried to read the table using ssc.data_get_table(dat, b'test'), I got an integer. How can I read the table as a table or a dataframe? Thanks!

Hi Cho,

If you are writing a program in Python to interact with SSC, it might be easier to use the PySAM package as described here: sam.nrel.gov/software-development-kit-sdk.html .

You can find documentation of the functions in sscapi.h here:

github.com/NREL/ssc/blob/develop/ssc/sscapi.h

Best regards,
Paul.

Thank you Paul. I'm trying to edit on some old scripts with PySSC and it's not very easy to rewrite them all with PySAM. 
I looked up the SSC Reference Manual and tried the following as well. But I got error running the last line. How can I read the content in a ssc table?
ssc.data_free(table)
table = ssc.data_create()
table = ssc.data_get_table(dat, b'test')
print(ssc.data_get_array(table, b'gh'))

Hello Cho,

I was able to reproduce your error using the PySSC from PySAM's most recent release as well as the PySSC distributed from SAM 2017.9.5. Unfortunately, that means it might take some time to dig into where the bug is coming from.

Depending on your workflow, I would suggest using PySAM's PySSC version which allows you to run a compute module such as PVWatts from a Python dictionary:

from PySAM.PySSC import PySSC, ssc_sim_from_dict

ssc = PySSC()
table = ssc.data_create()
ssc.data_set_number(table, b'lat', 37.95)
ssc.data_set_array(table, b'gh', (2.0, ) * 8760)

sim_dict = {'solar_resource_data': table,'array_type': 0.0, 'azimuth': 180.0, 'batt_simple_enable': 0.0, 'dc_ac_ratio': 1.2, 'en_snowloss': 0.0, 'gcr': 0.4, 'inv_eff': 96.0, 'losses': 14.0757, 'module_type': 0.0, 'system_capacity': 4.0, 'tilt': 20.0, 'adjust:constant': 0.0}
sim_dict.update({'tech_model': 'pvwattsv7', 'financial_model': 'None', 'system_capacity': 2.33})

ssc_sim_from_dict(sim_dict) # an error will be thrown because solar_resource_data is not complete

If you really prefer to keep with the old method and want to query the values from the table, here is a work-around:

from PySAM.PySSC import PySSC
import PySAM.Pvwattsv7 as pv

ssc = PySSC()
table = ssc.data_create()
ssc.data_set_number(table, b'lat', 37.95)
ssc.data_set_array(table, b'gh', (2.0, ) * 8760)

dat = ssc.data_create()
ssc.data_set_table(dat, b'solar_resource_data', table)  # must be set to a valid SSC_TABLE/dictionary-type variable, otherwise the wrapping will fail
model = pv.wrap(dat)
print(model.SolarResource.solar_resource_data)


Best,

Darice