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save_pickles

jobovy/gaia_tools · gaia_tools/util/__init__.py:6

def save_pickles(savefilename,*args,**kwargs):
    """
    NAME:
       save_pickles
    PURPOSE:
       relatively safely save things to a pickle
    INPUT:
       savefilename - name of the file to save to; actual save operation will be performed on a temporary file and then that file will be shell mv'ed to savefilename
       +things to pickle (as many as you want!)
    OUTPUT:
       none
    HISTORY:
       2010-? - Written - Bovy (NYU)
       2011-08-23 - generalized and added to galpy.util - Bovy (NYU)
       2018-05-04 - Copied from galpy into gaia_tools - Bovy (UofT)
    """
    saving= True
    interrupted= False

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