File

class dolfin.cpp.io.File(*args)

Bases: object

A File represents a data file for reading and writing objects. Unless specified explicitly, the format is determined by the file name suffix. A list of objects that can be read/written to file can be found in GenericFile.h. Compatible file formats include:

• Binary (.bin)
• RAW (.raw)
• SVG (.svg)
• XD3 (.xd3)
• XDMF (.xdmf)
• XML (.xml)
• XYZ (.xyz)
• VTK (.pvd)

Overloaded versions

• File(filename, encoding=”ascii”)

  Create a file with given name

  Arguments

  filename (str)

  Name of file.

  encoding (str)

  Optional argument specifying encoding, ASCII is default.

  Example

  Note

  No example code available for this function.

• File(comm, filename, encoding=”ascii”)

  Create a file with given name with MPI communicator

  Arguments

  communicator (MPI)

  The MPI communicator.

  filename (str)

  Name of file.

  encoding (str)

  Optional argument specifying encoding, ascii is default.

  Example

  Note

  No example code available for this function.

• File(filename, type, encoding=”ascii”)

  Create a file with given name and type (format)

  Arguments

  filename (str)

  Name of file.

  type (Type)

  File format.

  encoding (str)

  Optional argument specifying encoding, ascii is default.

  Example

  Note

  No example code available for this function.

• File(comm, filename, type, encoding=”ascii”)

  Create a file with given name and type (format) with MPI communicator

  Arguments

  communicator (MPI)

  The MPI communicator.

  filename (str)

  Name of file.

  type (Type)

  File format.

  encoding (str)

  Optional argument specifying encoding, ascii is default.

  Example

  Note

  No example code available for this function.

• File(outstream)

  Create an outfile object writing to stream

  Arguments

  outstream (std::ostream)

  The stream.

binary = 6

static create_parent_path(filename)

Arguments

filename (str)

Name of file / path.

static exists(filename)

Check if file exists

Arguments

filename (str)

Name of file.

Returns

bool

True if the file exists.

raw = 4

svg = 7

thisown None

The membership flag

vtk = 3

x3d = 0

xdmf = 1

xml = 2

xyz = 5