def globalGrouper(listSaveState,listGrouperNum,listLastCallNum,listOfDirectory,globalGrouperDirectory):
# We read all grouper's last savestates, and put all nodefilename into a global nodefile.
globalDictListNodeFile = dict()
globalDictFromKeyToGlobalNodeFile = dict()
for i in range(0,len(listSaveState)):
saveStateName = listSaveState.pop()
grouperNum = listGrouperNum.pop()
grouperLastCallNum = listLastCallNum.pop()
directory = listOfDirectory.pop()
globalDictListNodeFile = Grouper.mergeDictionaries(globalDictListNodeFile,Grouper.readSaveStateIntoDictionnary(saveStateName.rstrip('\n'),grouperNum,grouperLastCallNum,directory))
counter = 0;
for key, listOfValues in globalDictListNodeFile.iteritems():
counter = counter + 1;
globalNodeFileName = Grouper.genericGlobalNodeFileName(counter,globalGrouperDirectory)
globalDictFromKeyToGlobalNodeFile[key] = globalNodeFileName
open(globalNodeFileName, 'w+').close(); # create empty file
for nodeFileName in listOfValues:
FileHelper.appendFileInFile(nodeFileName,globalNodeFileName)
return globalDictFromKeyToGlobalNodeFile
