From 4f449a5e6e6ad5b394b05dfceaddf01ad58d8a2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amir MOHAMMADI <amir.mohammadi@idiap.ch>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 16:03:02 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Allow for comment lines in file-lists
---
bob/bio/base/database/filelist/models.py | 2 ++
bob/bio/base/test/data/example_filelist2/dev/for_models.lst | 3 +++
doc/filelist-guide.rst | 1 +
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/bob/bio/base/database/filelist/models.py b/bob/bio/base/database/filelist/models.py
index f5507f87..a6317136 100644
--- a/bob/bio/base/database/filelist/models.py
+++ b/bob/bio/base/database/filelist/models.py
@@ -87,6 +87,8 @@ class ListReader(object):
raise RuntimeError('File %s does not exist.' % (list_file,))
try:
for line in fileinput.input(list_file):
+ if line.strip().startswith('#'):
+ continue
parsed_line = re.findall('[\w/(-.)]+', line)
if len(parsed_line):
# perform some sanity checks
diff --git a/bob/bio/base/test/data/example_filelist2/dev/for_models.lst b/bob/bio/base/test/data/example_filelist2/dev/for_models.lst
index 7bdbf751..c6618bb7 100644
--- a/bob/bio/base/test/data/example_filelist2/dev/for_models.lst
+++ b/bob/bio/base/test/data/example_filelist2/dev/for_models.lst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# Model samples
+#Modelsamples
+#data/model3_session1_sample1 3 3
data/model3_session1_sample1 3 3
data/model3_session1_sample2 3 3
data/model3_session1_sample3 3 3
diff --git a/doc/filelist-guide.rst b/doc/filelist-guide.rst
index 547ac797..eea61580 100644
--- a/doc/filelist-guide.rst
+++ b/doc/filelist-guide.rst
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ The following list files need to be created:
filename client_id
+Please note that in all files, the lines starting with ``#`` will be ignored.
Protocols and File Lists
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