From 93b2160c2facf13a87b031012c0a9873d38a1b8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claudio	Zambaldi <c.zambaldi@mpie.de>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:59:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] extract exit number from MSC out-file. Other MSC utility
 functions can also go into MSC_TOOLS class.

---
 processing/post/msc_tools.py | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 processing/post/msc_tools.py

diff --git a/processing/post/msc_tools.py b/processing/post/msc_tools.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c50c4b307
--- /dev/null
+++ b/processing/post/msc_tools.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+class MSC_TOOLS():
+
+  def exit_number_from_outFile(outFile=None)
+     fid_out=open(outFile,'r')
+     for ln in fid_out:
+       if (string.find(ln,'tress iteration') is not -1):
+         print ln
+       elif (string.find(ln,'Exit number') is not -1):
+         substr=ln[string.find(ln,'Exit number'):len(ln)]
+         exitnumber=substr[12:16]
+     fid_out.close()
+     return exitnumber