def get_dump_path()

in src/utils.py [0:0]

• 14 lines of code
• 8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def get_dump_path(params):
    """
    Create a directory to store the experiment.
    """
    assert os.path.isdir(MODELS_PATH)

    # create the sweep path if it does not exist
    sweep_path = os.path.join(MODELS_PATH, params.name)
    if not os.path.exists(sweep_path):
        subprocess.Popen("mkdir %s" % sweep_path, shell=True).wait()

    # create a random name for the experiment
    chars = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'
    while True:
        exp_id = ''.join(random.choice(chars) for _ in range(10))
        dump_path = os.path.join(MODELS_PATH, params.name, exp_id)
        if not os.path.isdir(dump_path):
            break

    # create the dump folder
    if not os.path.isdir(dump_path):
        subprocess.Popen("mkdir %s" % dump_path, shell=True).wait()
    return dump_path