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I ended up in a position where I needed to dump a bunch of TransCAD matrix files to OMX files. This is a useful little script that scans all the matrices in a folder (presuming they use the .mtx file extension) and write them out as matrices.
Anaconda is making me hate Python a little less… only a little. If I’m going to work with ActivitySim (which I am), it’s necessary.
1 The first hack is setting MKL_NUM_THREADS automatically. According to this page , it should be set to one thread to avoid things going nuts (that’s a technical term). Doing this is pretty easy, since Anaconda is setup to run all the scripts in a folder upon activation (there’s a deactivation folder too). To get to this, open the Anaconda prompt and activate the appropriate workspace. Then type echo %conda_prefix% . Copy (highlight and right-click) the resulting path and paste into a Windows Explorer Windo
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