htchirp

Pure Python Chirp client for HTCondor

Installation

The latest release is available on PyPI

pip install htchirp

Example Usage

Using with syntax (recommended)::

>>> import htchirp
>>> with htchirp.HTChirp() as chirp:
>>>     chirp.ulog('Logging use of Chirp in Python')
>>>     me = chirp.whoami()
>>>     chirp.set_job_attr('UsingPythonChirp', 'True')
>>>     using_chirp = chirp.get_job_attr('UsingPythonChirp')
>>> me
'CONDOR'
>>> using_chirp
'true'

Using manual connection and disconnection (not recommended)::

>>> import htchirp
>>> chirp = htchirp.HTChirp()
>>> chirp.connect()
>>> chirp.write('Important output 1\n', '/tmp/my-job-output', 'cwa')
19
>>> chirp.write('Important output 2\n', '/tmp/my-job-output', 'cwa')
19
>>> chirp.read('/tmp/my-job-output', 1024)
'Important output 1\nImportant output 2\n'
>>> chirp.fetch('/tmp/my-job-output', './my-job-output')
38
>>> chirp.disconnect()

For more commands, see help(htchirp.HTChirp). For a broader explanation of condor_chirp, see http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/manual/current/condor_chirp.html