save_all

sherpa.astro.ui.save_all(outfile=None, clobber=False)

Save the information about the current session to a text file.

This differs to the save command in that the output is human readable. Three consequences are:

  1. numeric values may not be recorded to their full precision

  2. data sets are not included in the file

  3. some settings and values may not be recorded (such as header information).

Changed in version 4.16.0: Any set_psf calls are now included in the output file. The filter is no-longer included if it does not exclude any data, and the code tries to recreate manually-created datasets (e.g. use of dataspace1d or load_arrays), but not all situations are handled. XSPEC table models are now correctly restored.

Parameters:
  • outfile (str or file-like, optional) – If given, the output is written to this file, and the clobber parameter controls what happens if the file already exists. outfile can be a filename string or a file handle (or file-like object, such as StringIO) to write to. If not set then the standard output is used.

  • clobber (bool, optional) – If outfile is a filename, then this flag controls whether an existing file can be overwritten (True) or if it raises an exception (False, the default setting).

Raises:

sherpa.utils.err.IOErr – If outfile already exists and clobber is False.

See also

save

Save the current Sherpa session to a file.

restore

Load in a Sherpa session from a file.

Notes

This command will create a series of commands that restores the current Sherpa set up. It does not save the set of commands used. Not all Sherpa settings are saved. Items not fully restored include:

  • grating data is not guaranteed to be restored correctly,

  • data changed from the version on disk - e.g. by calls to set_counts - will not be restored correctly,

  • any optional keywords to comands such as load_data or load_pha,

  • user models may not be restored correctly,

  • and only a subset of Sherpa commands are saved.

Examples

Write the current Sherpa session to the screen:

>>> save_all()

Save the session to the file ‘fit.sherpa’, overwriting it if it already exists:

>>> save_all('fit.sherpa', clobber=True)

Write the contents to a StringIO object:

>>> from io import StringIO
>>> store = StringIO()
>>> save_all(store)