Merge branch 'comment' into 'master'

Allow for comment lines in file-lists

See merge request !116

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

bob/bio/base/test/data/example_filelist2/dev/for_models.lst

+# 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

doc/filelist-guide.rst

@@ -124,6 +124,8 @@ The following list files need to be created:
       filename client_id
 
 
+Please note that in all files, the lines starting with any number of white
+space and ``#`` will be ignored.
 
 
 Protocols and File Lists