Miscellaneous Utilities¶

openmmtools.utils provides a number of useful utilities for working with OpenMM.

Timing functions¶

`time_it`	Context manager to log execution time of a block of code.
`with_timer`	Decorator that logs the execution time of a function.
`Timer`	A class with stopwatch-style timing functions.

temporary_directory Context for safe creation of temporary directories.

`sanitize_expression`	Sanitize variables with an illegal Python name.
`math_eval`	Evaluate a mathematical expression with variables.

is_quantity_close Check if the quantities are equal up to floating-point precision errors.

`get_available_platforms`	Return a list of the available OpenMM Platforms.
`get_fastest_platform`	Return the fastest available platform.

`serialize`	Serialize an object.
`deserialize`	Deserialize an object.

`with_metaclass`	Create a base class with a metaclass.
`SubhookedABCMeta`	Abstract class with an implementation of __subclasshook__.
`find_all_subclasses`	Return a set of all the classes inheriting from `parent_cls`.
`find_subclass`	Return the class called `subcls_name` inheriting from `parent_cls`.

RestorableOpenMMObject Base class for restorable custom integrators and forces.