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<div>I have a user that is trying to write a python script that reads in a dataset with a large number of files (say hundreds to thousands of files). The dataset is Exodus. This user wants to read in a large number of these datasets (dozens to hundreds),
with each dataset comprised of a different number of individual files than the other datasets. Thus, he doesn’t want to read in files like this (example, only 8 files):</div>
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<div>z_pinch1exo8 = ExodusIIReader(FileName=['z_pinch1.exo.8.0', 'z_pinch1.exo.8.1', z_pinch1.exo.8.2', 'z_pinch1.exo.8.3', 'z_pinch1.exo.8.4', 'z_pinch1.exo.8.5', 'z_pinch1.exo.8.6', 'z_pinch1.exo.8.7'])</div>
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<div>But would rather like this:</div>
<div>z_pinch1exo8 = ExodusIIReader(FileName=['z_pinch1.exo.8.*’])</div>
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<div>z_pinch1exo8 = ExodusIIReader(FileName=['z_pinch1.exo.”totalFileCount”.*’])</div>
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<div>Is this possible in Python? What is the format?</div>
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<div>If the user wants to window into his data, say take the last 4 files, is this possible? </div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Alan</div>
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