refactor: load and dump object moved to misc

pyerrors/__init__.py

@@ -246,10 +246,10 @@ See `pyerrors.obs.Obs.export_jackknife` for details.
 from .obs import *
 from .correlators import *
 from .fits import *
+from .misc import *
 from . import dirac
 from . import input
 from . import linalg
-from . import misc
 from . import mpm
 from . import roots
 

pyerrors/correlators.py

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ import numpy as np
 import autograd.numpy as anp
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 import scipy.linalg
-from .obs import Obs, dump_object, reweight, correlate
+from .obs import Obs, reweight, correlate
+from .misc import dump_object
 from .fits import least_squares
 from .linalg import eigh, inv, cholesky
 from .roots import find_root

pyerrors/misc.py

@@ -1,7 +1,40 @@
+import pickle
 import numpy as np
 from .obs import Obs
 
 
+def dump_object(obj, name, **kwargs):
+    """Dump object into pickle file.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    obj : object
+        object to be saved in the pickle file
+    name : str
+        name of the file
+    path : str
+        specifies a custom path for the file (default '.')
+    """
+    if 'path' in kwargs:
+        file_name = kwargs.get('path') + '/' + name + '.p'
+    else:
+        file_name = name + '.p'
+    with open(file_name, 'wb') as fb:
+        pickle.dump(obj, fb)
+
+
+def load_object(path):
+    """Load object from pickle file.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    path : str
+        path to the file
+    """
+    with open(path, 'rb') as file:
+        return pickle.load(file)
+
+
 def gen_correlated_data(means, cov, name, tau=0.5, samples=1000):
     """ Generate observables with given covariance and autocorrelation times.
 

pyerrors/obs.py

@@ -1527,38 +1527,6 @@ def pseudo_Obs(value, dvalue, name, samples=1000):
         return res
 
 
-def dump_object(obj, name, **kwargs):
-    """Dump object into pickle file.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    obj : object
-        object to be saved in the pickle file
-    name : str
-        name of the file
-    path : str
-        specifies a custom path for the file (default '.')
-    """
-    if 'path' in kwargs:
-        file_name = kwargs.get('path') + '/' + name + '.p'
-    else:
-        file_name = name + '.p'
-    with open(file_name, 'wb') as fb:
-        pickle.dump(obj, fb)
-
-
-def load_object(path):
-    """Load object from pickle file.
-
-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    path : str
-        path to the file
-    """
-    with open(path, 'rb') as file:
-        return pickle.load(file)
-
-
 def import_jackknife(jacks, name, idl=None):
     """Imports jackknife samples and returns an Obs