igwn_ligolw.utils Package¶

Library of utility code for LIGO Light Weight XML applications.

Functions¶

`sort_files_by_size`(filenames[, verbose, reverse])	Return a list of the filenames sorted in order from smallest file to largest file (or largest to smallest if reverse is set to True).
`local_path_from_url`(url)	For URLs that point to locations in the local filesystem, extract and return the filesystem path of the object to which they point.
`load_fileobj`(fileobj[, compress, xmldoc, ...])	Parse the contents of the file object fileobj, and return the contents as a LIGO Light Weight document tree.
`load_filename`(filename[, verbose])	Parse the contents of the file identified by filename, and return the contents as a LIGO Light Weight document tree.
`load_url`(url[, verbose])	Parse the contents of file at the given URL and return the contents as a LIGO Light Weight document tree.
`write_fileobj`(xmldoc, fileobj[, compress, ...])	Writes the LIGO Light Weight document tree rooted at xmldoc to the given file object.
`write_filename`(xmldoc, filename[, verbose, ...])	Writes the LIGO Light Weight document tree rooted at xmldoc to the file name filename.
`write_url`(xmldoc, url, **kwargs)	Writes the LIGO Light Weight document tree rooted at xmldoc to the URL name url.