Module medpicpy.utils

Utility functions for the package that the user shouldn't need.

"""
Utility functions for the package that the user shouldn't need.
"""
def remove_sub_paths(paths):
    """Since glob.glob with recursive doesn't
    only take the longest path we need to remove
    paths that are a part of other paths.

    Args:
        paths (array): array of paths

    Returns:
        array: array of paths that aren't a subset of other paths
    """
    limit = len(paths)
    i = 0
    while i < limit:
        path = paths[i]
        for other in paths:
            if path in other and path != other:
                paths.remove(path)
                i -= 1
                limit -= 1
                break
        i += 1
    return paths

Functions

def remove_sub_paths(paths)

Since glob.glob with recursive doesn't only take the longest path we need to remove paths that are a part of other paths.

Args

paths : array

array of paths

Returns

array

array of paths that aren't a subset of other paths

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def remove_sub_paths(paths):
    """Since glob.glob with recursive doesn't
    only take the longest path we need to remove
    paths that are a part of other paths.

    Args:
        paths (array): array of paths

    Returns:
        array: array of paths that aren't a subset of other paths
    """
    limit = len(paths)
    i = 0
    while i < limit:
        path = paths[i]
        for other in paths:
            if path in other and path != other:
                paths.remove(path)
                i -= 1
                limit -= 1
                break
        i += 1
    return paths