changed Object<->Dictionary functions and added function about free memory

mcutils.py

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ import string
 import scipy.signal
 import functools
 import types
+import sys
+import collections
 import os
 import pylab as plt
 from itertools import chain
@@ -453,7 +455,27 @@ class FFTfilter(object):
     return np.fft.ifft(s*self.filter)
     
 
-### PROMPT,PROCESS,TIME,DATE ... ETC. ###
+### OS, PROMPT,PROCESS,TIME,DATE ... ETC. ###
+
+def bytesToHuman(bytes,units="auto",fmt="%.2f %s"):
+  _units = dict( B = 0, KB = 1, MB = 2, GB = 3, TB = 4, PT = 5 )
+  _symb  = {v: k for k, v in _units.items()}
+  bytes  = float(bytes)
+  if units == "auto":
+    u = np.log(bytes)//np.log(1024)
+    units = _symb[u]
+  else:
+    u = _units[units]
+  value = bytes/1024**u
+  return fmt % (value,units)
+
+
+def memAvailable(asHuman=True):
+  import psutil
+  m = psutil.virtual_memory(); # return bytes
+  m = m.available
+  if asHuman: m = bytesToHuman(m)
+  return m
 
 class procCom(object):
   def __init__(self,cmd):
@@ -1188,16 +1210,34 @@ def insertInSortedArray(a,v):
 
 ### Objects ###
 
-def objToDict(o):
-  """ convert a dropObject to a dictionary (useful for saving); it should work for other objects too """
-  if isinstance(o,dict): return o
+def objToDict(o,recursive=True):
+  """ convert a DictWrap to a dictionary (useful for saving); it should work for other objects too """
+  if isinstance(o,(dict,collections.OrderedDict)): return o
   d = dict()
-  for k in o.__dict__.keys(): d[k] = getattr(o,k)
+  for k in o.keys():
+    try:
+      d[k] = objToDict(getattr(o,k))
+    except:
+      d[k] = o[k]
   return d
 
 
-class dropObject(object):
-  pass
+class DictWrap(object):
+  """ convert d = dict( a=1,b=np.arange(10),c=dict(d=5,e=dict(f=(3,4)) ))
+      to object recursively
+      r = DictWrap(d); r.c.e.f = (3,4) """
+  def __init__(self,d=None,recursive=True):
+    if d is not None:
+      if sys.version_info.major == 2:
+        for k,v in d.iteritems():
+          if recursive and isinstance(v,(dict,collections.OrderedDict)):
+            v = DictWrap(v,recursive=True)
+          setattr(self, k, v)
+      else:
+        for k,v in d.items():
+          if recursive and isinstance(v,(dict,collections.OrderedDict)):
+            v = DictWrap(v,recursive=True)
+          setattr(self, k, v)
 
   def __getitem__(self,x):
     return self.__dict__[x]
@@ -1209,7 +1249,7 @@ class dropObject(object):
     self.__dict__[name]=data
 
   def __str__(self):
-    return "dropObject with keys %s" % self.keys()
+    return "DictWrap with keys %s" % self.keys()
 
   def keys(self):
     # list is needed because in py3 keys() returs a generator (and the sorting
@@ -1230,10 +1270,12 @@ class dropObject(object):
 def dictToObj(d,recursive=True,cleanNames=True):
   """Return a class that has same attributes/values and 
      dictionaries key/value
+     DictWrap can do recursively but this function cleans up the names allowing
+     easier tab completion
   """
   if not isinstance(d,dict): return None 
   #define a dummy class
-  c = dropObject()
+  c = DictWrap()
   for elem in d.keys():
       key = elem
       if cleanNames:
@@ -1254,7 +1296,7 @@ def Hdf5ToObj(h5):
     h5hande = h5
   else:
     h5hande = h5py.File(h5,"r")
-  ret = dropObject()
+  ret = DictWrap()
   for h in h5hande:
     name = h.replace(":","_")
     name = name.replace(".","_")