From 5cb9fcfd153afcb9f1d6d40958af00a16a87a458 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 15:54:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] storage: Add 'load_config()' for those that don't want an AFM
 instance

For example, when setting up unfold-config, we may just want to load
the default configuration but don't need to control an experiment
quite yet.
---
 pyafm/storage.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyafm/storage.py b/pyafm/storage.py
index 9b1e0f8..73b69eb 100644
--- a/pyafm/storage.py
+++ b/pyafm/storage.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ def save_afm(afm, filename=None, group=None):
     storage = _HDF5_Storage(filename=filename, group=group)
     storage.save(config=afm.config)
 
-def load_afm(filename=None, group=None):
+def load_config(filename=None, group=None):
     if filename is None:
         filename = DEFAULT_FILENAME
     if group is None:
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@ def load_afm(filename=None, group=None):
     _LOG.info('loading AFM config from {} {}'.format(filename, group))
     config = _AFMConfig(storage=_HDF5_Storage(filename=filename, group=group))
     config.load()
+    return config
+
+def load_afm(filename=None, group=None):
+    config = load_config(filename=filename, group=group)
     _LOG.debug(
         'constructing AFM from configuration:\n{}'.format(config.dump()))
     return AFM(config=config)
-- 
2.26.2