Utils

A few helper functions for users and developer.

create_animation(input_file_mask='', input_file_names=None, target_format='.mp4')

Create an animation from the given files.

If no file names are given, a file selection dialog will appear.

Parameters:

• input_file_mask (basestring) – file name mask with c-style format string
• input_file_names (iterable) – names of the files

Returns:

animation file

create_dir(dir_name)

Create a directory with name dir_name relative to the current path if it doesn’t already exist and return its full path.

Parameters:dir_name (str) – Directory name. Returns:Full absolute path of the created directory. Return type:str