cox.utils module

class cox.utils.Parameters(params)

Bases: object

Parameters class, just a nice way of accessing a dictionary

ps = Parameters({"a": 1, "b": 3})
ps.A # returns 1

as_dict()

cox.utils.consistent(old, new)

Asserts that either first argument is None or both arguments are equal, and returns the non-None argument.

cox.utils.has_tensorboard(dirname)

Given a directory path, return whether or not it has a tensorboard directory in it.

Parameters:dirname (str) – path to directory Returns:Whether or not the directory has a “tensorboard” folder in it.

cox.utils.mkdirp(x, should_msg=False)

Tries to make a directory, but doesn’t error if the directory exists/can’t be created.

cox.utils.obj_to_string(obj)

Serialize an object to a string

cox.utils.override_json(args, json_path, check_consistency=False)

Overrides the null values in an arguments object with values extracted from a JSON file.

Parameters:

• args (object) – A python object with the arguments as properties.
• json_path (str) – Path to the JSON file with which to override.
• check_consistency (bool) – If true, make sure that the keys in the JSON file and the args object match up exactly

Returns:

A new args object with appropriately overriden None values.

cox.utils.string_to_obj(s)

Unserialize a string back into an object.