Fix hardcoded absolute paths in notebook and param files

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Fix hardcoded absolute paths in notebook and param files

Closed this issue 4 years ago · 2 comments

[...] @mfumagalli please don't hardcode absolute paths/names/settings that would work only on your computer.

Specifically, I have to change /home/mfumagal/... paths everywhere every time. It is troubling for me and I believe it must be terribly frustrating for non-expert users. I would suggest at least to extract a path variable that can set/changed at the beginning of the notebook.

Notebooks should be runnable for anyone just as is and that way they should be provided by us.

Originally posted by @mathemage in #2 (comment)

Answer 1 · 2020-03-25T18:42:05.000Z

mathemage commented 4 years ago

Answer 2 · 2020-03-31T14:06:21.000Z

I'd rather not accepting this change but keep it as it is so that users can set the paths in the parameters file along all other variables that need to be set.