# Text File Input and Output¶

This brief tutorial focuses on the different pyGSTi objects that can be converted to & from text files. Currently, GateSet, DataSet, MultiDataSet, and TDDataSet objects, as well as lists and dictionaries of GateString objects, can be saved to and loaded from text files. All text-based input and output is done via the pygsti.io sub-package. When objects have save and load methods (as the data set types do), these save and load binary formats which are different from the text formats used by the pygsti.io routines. Objects may also be pickled using Python's pickle package, which is yet another way of saving and loading pyGSTi objects.

Below we give examples of saving and loading each type of objects to/from text format. Many of these examples appear in other tutorials, but we thought it might be useful to collect them here.

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import pygsti

#GateSets ------------------------------------------------------------
gateset_txt = \
"""
# Example text file describing a gateset

# State prepared, specified as a state in the Pauli basis (I,X,Y,Z)
PREP: rho0
LiouvilleVec
1/sqrt(2) 0 0 1/sqrt(2)

POVM: Mdefault

# State measured as yes (zero) outcome, also specified as a state in the Pauli basis
EFFECT: 0
LiouvilleVec
1/sqrt(2) 0 0 1/sqrt(2)

EFFECT: 1
LiouvilleVec
1/sqrt(2) 0 0 -1/sqrt(2)

END POVM

GATE: Gi
LiouvilleMx
1 0 0 0
0 1 0 0
0 0 1 0
0 0 0 1

GATE: Gx
LiouvilleMx
1 0 0 0
0 1 0 0
0 0 0 -1
0 0 1 0

GATE: Gy
LiouvilleMx
1 0 0 0
0 0 0 1
0 0 1 0
0 -1 0 0

BASIS: pp 2
"""
with open("tutorial_files/TestGateSet.txt","w") as f:
f.write(gateset_txt)

pygsti.io.write_gateset(gs_target, "tutorial_files/TestGateSet.txt")

#DataSets ------------------------------------------------------------
dataset_txt = \
"""## Columns = 0 count, count total
{} 0 100
Gx 10 90
GxGy 40 60
Gx^4 20 90
"""
with open("tutorial_files/TestDataSet.txt","w") as f:
f.write(dataset_txt)

pygsti.io.write_dataset("tutorial_files/TestDataSet.txt", ds)

#MultiDataSets ------------------------------------------------------------
multidataset_txt = \
"""## Columns = DS0 0 count, DS0 1 count, DS1 0 frequency, DS1 count total
{} 0 100 0 100
Gx 10 90 0.1 100
GxGy 40 60 0.4 100
Gx^4 20 80 0.2 100
"""

with open("tutorial_files/TestMultiDataSet.txt","w") as f:
f.write(multidataset_txt)

pygsti.io.write_multidataset("tutorial_files/TestDataSet.txt", multiDS)

#TDDataSets ------------------------------------------------------------
# Note: left of equals sign is letter, right is spam label
tddataset_txt = \
"""## 0 = 0
## 1 = 1
{} 011001
Gx 111000111
Gy 11001100
"""
with open("tutorial_files/TestTDDataset.txt","w") as f:
f.write(tddataset_txt)

#NOTE: currently there's no way to *write* a TDDataSet.

#GateStrings ------------------------------------------------------------
from pygsti.construction import std1Q_XY
gsList = pygsti.construction.make_lsgst_experiment_list(
['Gx','Gy'], std1Q_XY.prepStrs, std1Q_XY.effectStrs,
std1Q_XY.germs, [1,2,4,8])
pygsti.io.write_gatestring_list("tutorial_files/TestGatestringList.txt",gsList,"#Test GateString List")
pygsti.io.write_empty_dataset("tutorial_files/TestEmptyDataset.txt",gsList)
#additionally creates columns of zeros where data should go...

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