merge_jobs

merge_jobs(jobs, task, merge=None, ignore=None)

Merge jobs that are identical apart from the arguments named in ignore. These jobs will be recreated with

Identical tasks are identified by creating a hash of the dictionary of task keyword arguments, ignoring keywords specified in the 'ignore' argument. Jobs with the same hash can be merged; this is done by appending the spw argument of job X to the spw argument of memoed job Y, whereafter job X can be discarded.

Parameters:

• jobs (a list of JobRequest) -- the job requests to merge

• task (a reference to a function on :class:`~pipeline.infrastructure.jobrequest.casa_tasks') -- the CASA task to recreate

• ignore (an iterable containing strings) -- the task arguments to ignore during hash creation

Return type:

a list of JobRequest