Excluding certain variables from data log (log.write_vars())

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• sebastiaan

  March 2023

  Hi @sarah_alexandra ,

  Yes, you can do that in various ways. The easiest is probably to create a list of variables that you want to exclude. And then you get a list of all variables that OpenSesame knows about with var.inspect() , filter out the ones that you don't want using a list expression, and pass the result to log.write_vars() . Do you see the logic?

  EXCLUDE = ['canvas_backend', 'experiment_path']
  log.write_vars([log_var for log_var in var.inspect() if log_var not in EXCLUDE])
  

  — Sebastiaan

  PS. OpenSesame 4.0, which should be released in a few months, will actually feature an exclude-list in the logger item for exactly this purpose.

  
  
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• sarah_alexandra

  March 2023

  Hi Sebastiaan,

  Thank you so much for your fast answer!

  That makes a lot of sense to me! Do I understand that correctly that I would have to create the list with variables I want to exclude manually? Meaning that I would have to screen through the current data log to note down which variables I would like to exclude? Or is there an easier way to do so?

  And the list of variables I would like to exclude - I suppose I would not have to add the "var." in front and could list them in the way you did above as a string in "EXCLUDE"?

  Best,

  Sarah
• lvanderlinden

  March 2023

  Hi @sarah_alexandra ,

  
  

  I guess you could just reverse the logic like so, right?

  
  

  INCLUDE = ['response_time', 'correct']
  log.write_vars([log_var for log_var in var.inspect() if log_var in INCLUDE])
  

  
  

  Cheers,

  
  

  Lotje

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• sarah_alexandra

  March 2023

  Hi Lotje,

  That makes sense, thanks a lot for the recommendation :)

  Best,

  Sarah