# HG changeset patch
# User Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
# Date 1582108745 0
# Node ID 462179da7dc2b65b5c25dffc96d7699d7cd7f6bd
# Parent  83ed7c5846b2ef6ad04812dd80bc2f142274a8c7
try harder not to write empty links files

diff -r 83ed7c5846b2 -r 462179da7dc2 bin/plinks.py
--- a/bin/plinks.py	Tue Feb 18 22:19:51 2020 +0000
+++ b/bin/plinks.py	Wed Feb 19 10:39:05 2020 +0000
@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@
     (fno,f)=l.rstrip().split()
     try:
       links=run(f)
-      with open('/dev/shm/x/links_%s'%fno,'w') as of:
-        for k in links.keys():
-          for l in links[k]:
-            print("%s\t%s"%(k,l),file=of)
+      if bool(links) and (links.get('scrape',False) or
+                          links.get('annot',False)):
+        with open('/dev/shm/x/links_%s'%fno,'w') as of:
+          for k in links.keys():
+            for l in links[k]:
+              print("%s\t%s"%(k,l),file=of)
     except Exception as e:
       print("%s\t%s"%(fno,e),file=bf)
     if (path.exists('/dev/shm/stopJob')):