psychopy.tools.filetools

Functions and classes related to file and directory handling

psychopy.tools.filetools.toFile(filename, data)

save data (of any sort) as a pickle file

simple wrapper of the cPickle module in core python

psychopy.tools.filetools.fromFile(filename)

load data (of any sort) from a pickle file

simple wrapper of the cPickle module in core python

psychopy.tools.filetools.mergeFolder(src, dst, pattern=None)

Merge a folder into another.

Existing files in dst folder with the same name will be overwritten. Non-existent files/folders will be created.

psychopy.tools.filetools.openOutputFile(fileName, append=False, delim=None, fileCollisionMethod='rename', encoding='utf-8')

Open an output file (or standard output) for writing.

Parameters:

fileName : string

The desired output file name.

append : bool, optional

If True, append data to an existing file; otherwise, overwrite it with new data. Defaults to True, i.e. appending.

delim : string, optional

The delimiting character(s) between values. For a CSV file, this would be a comma. For a TSV file, it would be `` . Defaults to ``None.

fileCollisionMethod : string, optional

How to handle filename collisions. This is ignored if append is set to True. Defaults to rename.

encoding : string, optional

The encoding to use when writing the file. Defaults to 'utf-8'.

Returns:

f : file

A writable file handle.

Notes:

If no known filename extension is given, and the delimiter is a comma, the extension .csv will be chosen automatically. If the extension is unknown and the delimiter is a tab, the extension will be .tsv. .txt will be chosen otherwise.

psychopy.tools.filetools.genDelimiter(fileName)

Return a delimiter based on a filename.

Parameters:

fileName : string

The output file name.

Returns:

delim : string

A delimiter picked based on the supplied filename. This will be , if the filename extension is .csv, and a tabulator character otherwise.