Skip to content

make multinest temporary files optional and work with MPI/resuming

Colm Talbot requested to merge multinest-temporary-directory-optional into master

This wound up being a bigger change than I expected, but I've tested that this now

  • allows users to turn off the temporary directory usage
  • correctly returns the files to the expected directory when interrupted/finished
  • clears up the temporary directory when interrupted/finished
  • disables the temporary directory usage when running with MPI

I've generally used shutil.move rather than copying and removing as I had all kinds of issues with directories properly being removed.

The other kind of subtle thing is that pymultinest already has a signal handling function which can only be accessed by using importlib rather than a standard import.

Closes #485 (closed)

Edited by Colm Talbot

Merge request reports