Author: bugman Date: Wed Jan 9 14:19:47 2008 New Revision: 4543 URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax?rev=4543&view=rev Log: Updated the generic_fns.state.save_state() function. The docstring has been converted to epydoc format and the 'force' arg converted to a bool. Modified: 1.3/generic_fns/state.py Modified: 1.3/generic_fns/state.py URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/relax/1.3/generic_fns/state.py?rev=4543&r1=4542&r2=4543&view=diff ============================================================================== --- 1.3/generic_fns/state.py (original) +++ 1.3/generic_fns/state.py Wed Jan 9 14:19:47 2008 @@ -73,8 +73,20 @@ del state -def save_state(state=None, dir_name=None, force=0, compress_type=1): - """Function for saving the program state.""" +def save_state(state=None, dir_name=None, force=False, compress_type=1): + """Function for saving the program state. + + @param state: The saved state file. + @type state: str + @param dir_name: The path of the state file. + @type dir_name: str + @param force: Boolean argument which if True causes the file to be overwritten if it + already exists. + @type force: bool + @param compress_type: The compression type. The integer values correspond to the compression + type: 0, no compression; 1, Bzip2 compression; 2, Gzip compression. + @type compress_type: int + """ # Open the file for writing. file = open_write_file(file_name=state, dir=dir_name, force=force, compress_type=compress_type)