Filenames

Management of the file names

biogeme.filenames module

Implements the function providing names for the output files.

author

Michel Bierlaire

date

Tue Mar 26 16:48:40 2019

biogeme.filenames.getNewFileName(name, ext)

Generate a file name that does not exist.

Parameters

• name (string) – name of the file.

• ext (string) – file extension.

Returns

name.ext if the file does not exists. If it does, returns name~xx.ext, where xx is the smallest integer such that the corresponding file does not exist. It is designed to avoid erasing output files inadvertently.

Return type

string