smartgrid.make_env.find_profile_data

smartgrid.make_env.find_profile_data(dataset: str, filename: str) → str

Finds a data file from the data folder.

The data folder can be either:

• accessible through a relative path, e.g., because the source code was cloned (./data/path/to/the/desired/file).

• accessible through imports, e.g., because the package was installed.

How to access files in this folder depends on the actual case; this function (hopefully) solves this problem, by checking first whether the files are directly accessible (through relative paths). If they are not, importlib.resources is used to get a path to the file through the package.

Parameters:

• dataset – The name of the folder containing the desired file, within the data folder. For example, openei to access the OpenEI dataset. This dataset cannot be nested, e.g., dataset/subdataset or dataset.subdataset will not work.

• filename – The name of the desired file, within the dataset folder.

Returns:

A path to the desired file.