[GRASS-user] GRASS'c Python core function to use as g.mlist

[Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da]

Hi Jenny

> Because I got this error:
> p=grass.mlist_grouped ('rast', pattern=pattern,
> mapset='PERMANENT')

This command runs fine on my system (by replacing 'pattern' with a
valid pattern string'). Maybe it is a version problem? I'm running
GRASS 6.4.0 on Ubuntu 10.10, coming from the ubuntugis-unstable
repository.

> If I avoid using mapset I get a dictionary variable in which, each entry is
> the list of rasters for each MAPSET.

Maybe you can solve your problem by discarding the rest of the output.
If you only want the rasters present in the 'PERMANENT' mapset and
since mlist_grouped returns a dictionary with mapset names as keys,
you can keep just the value associated with the 'PERMANENT' key. So,
you can just do:

# returns a list with rasters present in the 'PERMANENT' mapset
p = grass.mlist_grouped('rast', pattern=pattern)['PERMANENT']



On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Jenny Turner <jennyturner1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Ricardo
> Thanks for your feedback but the problem is that mapset cannot be used as
> input.
> Because I got this error:
> p=grass.mlist_grouped ('rast', pattern=pattern,
> mapset='PERMANENT')
> TypeError: mlist_grouped() got an unexpected keyword
> argument 'mapset'.
> If I avoid using mapset I get a dictionary variable in which, each entry is
> the list of rasters for each MAPSET.
> Am I doing something wrong?
> Thanks
> Jenny
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da
> <ricardo.garcia.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jenny
>>
>> Long story short: use your command like this (note the asterisk on the
>> 'pattern' variable):
>>
>> # python code
>> p=grass.mlist_grouped ('rast', pattern='output*', mapset='Mapping')
>>
>>
>> I am using the Ipython shell to script grass. It has a cool feature,
>> that if you type the name of a function followed by two question
>> marks, you can see the source code of the function (as long as it is
>> coded in python itself).
>> So, in doing:
>>
>> grass.mlist_grouped??
>>
>> It is possible to see that the mlist_grouped function is internally
>> calling the 'g.mlist' command with only the 'm' flag.
>>
>> Reading the documentation for the g.mlist command [1], I realize that,
>> without using the -r or -e flags, this command accepts wildcards[2] as
>> the 'pattern' string. The asterisk (*) is the wildcard character for
>> substituting for any zero or more characters. So, in order to get a
>> string that starts with 'output' and after that can have anything, you
>> just type 'output*'
>>
>>
>> [1] - http://grass.fbk.eu/grass64/manuals/html64_user/g.mlist.html
>> [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard_character#Computing
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Jenny Turner
>> <jennyturner1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Greetings
>> > I'm doing a GRASS Python Script where I need to list a set of raster
>> > maps
>> > but I'm not using its exact name but a basic regular expression (r flag
>> > in
>> > g.mlist function).
>> > So I want to find a list of rasters with output on its name:
>> > p=grass.mlist_grouped ('rast', pattern='output', mapset='Mapping')
>> > But I get null entries because no raster map is named output only
>> > output01
>> > output02 output03 ...
>> > I want to list all raster maps with output on itsd name. How can I do
>> > this
>> > using grass.mlist_grouped?
>> > Thanks
>> > Jenny
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>>
>>
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