padre_buddy.py - Your friendly command-line helper

This script was created as a blending of my desire to make a very easy, user-friendly script, my interest in artificial intelligence, and my loose grip on reality. The result is a sometimes amazing, sometimes broken script.

Usage:

padre_buddy.py [action_word] [direct_objects] [modifiers]

The syntax is very loose. The library tries to match each word to a known concept. It will try to correct for simple spelling errors and has an internal dictionary of synonyms as well.

Actions (currently working):

list:Currently the most useful. Try to match a direct object and list all of them that match the modifiers. For example, if the direct object was “dsets” and the modifier was “subject-4”, it would print out all of the datasets for “subject-4” link:Will find all datasets matching the given modifiers and create symbolic links within the current working directory. Useful if you want to “play” with the data without moving it out of Padre or using really long filenames

Direct Objects:

• Atlases
• Subjects
• Experiments
• Labels
• Tags
• Sessions
• Dsets
• Metadata
• Edat, Eprime-txt

Example of command line usage:

padre_buddy.py list subjects ExperimentName

padre_buddy.py list labels

padre_buddy.py list dsets subject_one task_name

Example of script usage (although CSH burns my eyes…):

#!/bin/csh

echo 'Running the weird, crazy, padre machine to try to figure out where the heck my data is...'

set subject = "11334"
set task = "sdtones"

set dsets = `padre_buddy.py list dsets $task $subject`

if( "$dsets" == "" ) then
        echo 'AHHH! No DATA! '
        echo ''
        echo 'Did you make sure everything looks good in Padre Web? '
        echo '...'
        echo '...'
        exit
endif

echo ''
echo 'Ok... phew. Found the data. Now I can return to the sanity of CSH'
echo ''
echo 'First SDT dataset:'
echo $dsets[1]

echo '...and the second:'
echo $dsets[2]

echo ''
echo 'not necessarily in chronological order'