spacepy.toolbox.assemble

spacepy.toolbox.assemble(fln_pattern, outfln, sortkey='ticks', verbose=True)

assembles all pickled files matching fln_pattern into single file and save as outfln. Pattern may contain simple shell-style wildcards *? a la fnmatch file will be assembled along time axis given by Ticktock (key: ‘ticks’) in dictionary If sortkey = None, then nothing will be sorted

Parameters:

fln_patternstring

pattern to match filenames

outflnstring

filename to save combined files to

Returns:

outdict

dictionary with combined values

Examples

>>> import spacepy.toolbox as tb
>>> a, b, c = {'ticks':[1,2,3]}, {'ticks':[4,5,6]}, {'ticks':[7,8,9]}
>>> tb.savepickle('input_files_2001.pkl', a)
>>> tb.savepickle('input_files_2002.pkl', b)
>>> tb.savepickle('input_files_2004.pkl', c)
>>> a = tb.assemble('input_files_*.pkl', 'combined_input.pkl')
('adding ', 'input_files_2001.pkl')
('adding ', 'input_files_2002.pkl')
('adding ', 'input_files_2004.pkl')
('\n writing: ', 'combined_input.pkl')
>>> print(a)
{'ticks': array([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9])}