Merge pull request #75 from sciris/fix-saveobj

Fix saveobj

sciris/sc_fileio.py

@@ -98,11 +98,12 @@ def saveobj(filename=None, obj=None, compresslevel=5, verbose=0, folder=None, me
         myobj = ['this', 'is', 'a', 'weird', {'object':44}]
         saveobj('myfile.obj', myobj)
     '''
-    if isinstance(filename, Path):
+    if isinstance(filename, Path): # If it's a path object, convert to string
         filename = str(filename)
-    if filename is None:
+    if filename is None: # If it doesn't exist, just create a byte stream
         bytesobj = io.BytesIO()
-    else:
+    else: # Normal use case: make a file path
+        bytesobj = None
         filename = makefilepath(filename=filename, folder=folder, default='default.obj', sanitize=True)
 
     with GzipFile(filename=filename, fileobj=bytesobj, mode='wb', compresslevel=compresslevel) as fileobj:

sciris/sc_version.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 __all__ = ['__version__', '__versiondate__', '__license__']
 
-__version__      = '0.15.3'
-__versiondate__  = '2019-12-15'
+__version__      = '0.15.4'
+__versiondate__  = '2020-01-28'
 __license__      = 'Sciris %s (%s) -- (c) Sciris.org' % (__version__, __versiondate__)