Ian's comments

bin/plotting/pycbc_page_versioning

@@ -15,19 +15,19 @@ parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
 parser.add_argument('--version', action="version",
                     version=pycbc.version.git_verbose_msg)
 parser.add_argument('--verbose', action='store_true')
-parser.add_argument('--executables-files', nargs='+', required=True,
-                    help="List of executable files to provide version "
+parser.add_argument('--executables', nargs='+', required=True,
+                    help="List of executables to provide version "
                          "information for")
 parser.add_argument('--executables-names', nargs='+', required=True,
-                    help="List of executable names, must be in the "
+                    help="Names of the executables, must be in the "
                          "same order as --executables-files")
 parser.add_argument("--output-file", required=True,
                     help="The directory for output html snippets")
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
 init_logging(args.verbose)
 
-if not len(args.executables_files) == len(args.executables_names):
+if not len(args.executables) == len(args.executables_names):
     raise parser.error("--executables-files and executables-names must be "
                        "the same number of arguments")
 
@@ -45,18 +45,12 @@ for curr_lib in library_list:
 
 code_version_dict = get_code_version_numbers(
     args.executables_names,
-    args.executables_files
+    args.executables
 )
 
 html_text += f'<h2>Version Information from Executables</h2>:<br>\n'
 for key, value in code_version_dict.items():
-    # value might be a str or a bytes object in python3. python2 is happy
-    # to combine these objects (or uniocde and str, their equivalents)
-    # but python3 is not.
-    try:
-        value = value.decode()
-    except AttributeError:
-        pass
+    value = value.decode()
     html_text += '<li><b>%s</b>:<br><pre>%s</pre></li><hr><br><br>\n' \
         % (key, str(value).replace('@', '&#64;'))
 

bin/pygrb/pycbc_pygrb_pp_workflow

@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ ini_file = _workflow.FileList([_workflow.File(wflow.ifos, '',
                                               wflow.analysis_time,
                                               file_url='file://' + ini_file_path)])
 layout.single_layout(base, ini_file)
- 
+
 # Create versioning information
 wf.make_versioning_page(
     _workflow,

pycbc/workflow/versioning.py

@@ -25,9 +25,7 @@
 Module to generate/manage the executable used for version information
 in workflows
 """
-
-from urllib.request import pathname2url
-from urllib.parse import urljoin
+import os
 from pycbc.workflow.core import File, FileList, Executable
 
 
@@ -50,25 +48,22 @@ def make_versioning_page(workflow, config_parser, out_dir, tags=None):
         tags=tags,
     )
     node = vers_exe.create_node()
-    exe_names = []
-    exe_paths = []
+    config_names = []
+    exes = []
     for name, path in config_parser.items('executables'):
-        file_url = urljoin('file:', pathname2url(path))
-        exe_to_test = File(workflow.ifos, '',
-                           workflow.analysis_time, file_url=file_url)
-        exe_to_test.add_pfn(file_url, site='local')
-        if exe_to_test in exe_paths:
+        exe_to_test = os.path.basename(path)
+        if exe_to_test in exes:
             # executable is already part of the list,
             # find which index and add the name to the
             # one already stored
-            path_idx = exe_paths.index(exe_to_test)
-            name_orig = exe_names[path_idx]
-            exe_names[path_idx] = f"{name_orig},{name}"
+            path_idx = exes.index(exe_to_test)
+            name_orig = config_names[path_idx]
+            config_names[path_idx] = f"{name_orig},{name}"
         else:
-            exe_names.append(name)
-            exe_paths.append(exe_to_test)
-    node.add_input_list_opt('--executables-files', FileList(exe_paths))
-    node.add_list_opt('--executables-names', exe_names)
+            config_names.append(name)
+            exes.append(exe_to_test)
+    node.add_list_opt('--executables', exes)
+    node.add_list_opt('--executables-names', config_names)
     node.new_output_file_opt(workflow.analysis_time, '.html', '--output-file')
     workflow.add_node(node)