Source code for grass.grassdb.create
"""
Create objects in GRASS GIS Spatial Database
(C) 2020 by the GRASS Development Team
This program is free software under the GNU General Public
License (>=v2). Read the file COPYING that comes with GRASS
for details.
.. sectionauthor:: Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus gmail com>
"""
import os
import shutil
import getpass
[docs]def create_mapset(database, location, mapset):
"""Creates a mapset in a specified location"""
location_path = os.path.join(database, location)
mapset_path = os.path.join(location_path, mapset)
# create an empty directory
os.mkdir(mapset_path)
# copy DEFAULT_WIND file and its permissions from PERMANENT
# to WIND in the new mapset
region_path1 = os.path.join(location_path, "PERMANENT", "DEFAULT_WIND")
region_path2 = os.path.join(location_path, mapset, "WIND")
shutil.copy(region_path1, region_path2)
# set permissions to u+rw,go+r (disabled; why?)
# os.chmod(os.path.join(database,location,mapset,'WIND'), 0644)
[docs]def get_default_mapset_name():
"""Returns default name for mapset."""
try:
result = getpass.getuser()
# Raise error if not ascii (not valid mapset name).
result.encode("ascii")
except UnicodeEncodeError:
# Fall back to fixed name.
result = "user"
return result