runmanager.new_sequence_details

runmanager.new_sequence_details(script_path, config=None, increment_sequence_index=True)

Generate the details for a new sequence: the toplevel attrs sequence_date, sequence_index, sequence_id; and the the output directory and filename prefix for the shot files, according to labconfig settings. If increment_sequence_index=True, then we are claiming the resulting sequence index for use such that it cannot be used by anyone else. This should be done if the sequence details are immediately about to be used to compile a sequence. Otherwise, set increment_sequence_index to False, but in that case the results are indicative only and one should call this function again with increment_sequence_index=True before compiling the sequence, as otherwise the sequence_index may be used by other code in the meantime.