accessing information from the logfile

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• sebastiaan

  August 2020

  Hi @DahmSF ,

  Yes, that's possible. To do that, you would need to write a simple script, like the one below, and add that to the Prepare phase of an inline_script at the start of the experiment. The script below checks whether a particular file, based on the subject number and session, already exists, and if so, increments the session number until the file doesn't exist yet. And then the file name is used to re-open the log.

  Hope that helps!

  Sebastiaan

  import os
  
  MAX_SESSION = 10
  
  for var.session_nr in range(1, MAX_SESSION + 1):
      # Get the full path to the log file
      log_path = os.path.abspath(
          'logfile-{}-{}.csv'.format(var.subject_nr, var.session_nr)
      )
      # If this log file doesn't exist yet, break the loop and use it
      if not os.path.exists(log_path):
          break
  else:
      # Executed if no break occurred
      raise Exception('All session have been completed!')
      
  # Re-open the logfile
  print(log_path)
  log.open(log_path)
  

  
  
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• DahmSF

  August 2020

  This is great stuff! Too good to be true 😀

  I just changed the directory of where the logfiles are stored to the directory of my experiment file.

  log_path = os.path.join(var.experiment_path,"Logfile", 'ID{}_Session{}.csv'.format(var.subject_nr, var.session_nr)

  )

  Thanks

  Stephan
• DahmSF

  October 2020

  One more question on this:

  I always make a copy of the file at the end of the experiment. I used to take this code:

  shutil.copyfile(var.logfile,os.path.join(var.experiment_path,"Logfile",filename+".csv"))

  However, the var.logfile seems to take the old file which is empty as the data is stored in the new file (see above). Is there a way to make a copy of the new file. I am pretty sure I need to use log_path somehow. Only that this is only the path but not the file itself.

  Thanks for your help

  Stephan
• sebastiaan

  October 2020

  Hi Stephan,

  Thanks for pointing this out. Of course, log.open() should also update var.logfile , so that's a minor bug. (To be fixed for 3.3.5, because 3.3.4 was already tagged just now.) For now, this is easily worked around though:

  var.logfile = log_path
  

  Cheers!

  Sebastiaan

  
  
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