Added run_exps.py option to --retry failed experiments.

If the retry flag is specified, failed experiments will be re-run after all
other experiments have run. They can be re-run at most 5 times.

This commit required a refactoring of run_exps.py to clean up the main
experiment running loop.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/gen_exps.py b/gen_exps.py
index b847661..00ce27b 100755
--- a/gen_exps.py
+++ b/gen_exps.py
@@ -43,6 +43,14 @@ def load_file(fname):
     except:
            raise IOError("Invalid generation file: %s" % fname)
 
+def print_descriptions(described):
+    for generator in described.split(','):
+        if generator not in gen.get_generators():
+            sys.stderr.write("No generator '%s'\n" % generator)
+        else:
+            print("Generator '%s', " % generator)
+            gen.get_generators()[generator]().print_help()
+
 def main():
     opts, args = parse_args()
 
@@ -50,12 +58,7 @@ def main():
     if opts.list_gens:
         print(", ".join(gen.get_generators()))
     if opts.described != None:
-        for generator in opts.described.split(','):
-            if generator not in gen.get_generators():
-                sys.stderr.write("No generator '%s'\n" % generator)
-            else:
-                print("Generator '%s', " % generator)
-                gen.get_generators()[generator]().print_help()
+        print_descriptions(opts.described)
     if opts.list_gens or opts.described:
         return 0