Lib.rave_tempfile Namespace Reference

Functions
	mktemp (suffix='', close=False)
	RAVE's tempfile constructor.

Variables
	tempdir
	Use shared memory space if available, Linux only.
	RAVETEMP = tempfile.tempdir
	The redefined template.

Detailed Description

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Function Documentation

mktemp()

Lib.rave_tempfile.mktemp	(		suffix = '',
			close = False )

RAVE's tempfile constructor.

Parameters

suffix	string, can be e.g. '.h5' for HDF5 files
close	string, set to "True" to close the file before continuing. The default value is "False".

Returns

tuple containing an int containing an OS-level handle to an open file as would be returned by os.open(), that can be closed with os.close()., and a string containing the absolute pathname to the file. NOTE the file is created and opened. In order to prevent too many open files, you may have to close this file before continuing.

Variable Documentation

RAVETEMP

Lib.rave_tempfile.RAVETEMP = tempfile.tempdir

The redefined template.

tempdir

Lib.rave_tempfile.tempdir

Use shared memory space if available, Linux only.