mango.io.compressDir

mango.io.compressDir(dirPath, dest=None, method='application/x-bzip2', preserve=True, mpiComm=<mpi4py.MPI.Intracomm object at 0x7f72206bdb70>)

Compress files in a specified directory. Can take advantage of MPI by compressing files per MPI process.

Parameters:

• dirPath (str) – Directory containing files which are to be compressed.
• dest (str) – Directory where compressed files are written (must exist). If dest==None, files are compressed in directory dirPath.
• preserve (bool) – If False, original uncompressed file is deleted after compressed file is created.
• mpiComm (mpi4py.MPI.Comm) – Communicator for MPI parallelism.

Return type:

list of str

Returns:

List of the compressed file names.