Merge branch 'staging' into fix/thewhaleking/str-formatting-for-alpha

Author: basfroman

bittensor/core/settings.py

@@ -7,15 +7,18 @@
 from munch import munchify
 
 
+READ_ONLY = os.getenv("READ_ONLY") == "1"
+
 HOME_DIR = Path.home()
 USER_BITTENSOR_DIR = HOME_DIR / ".bittensor"
 WALLETS_DIR = USER_BITTENSOR_DIR / "wallets"
 MINERS_DIR = USER_BITTENSOR_DIR / "miners"
 
 
-# Create dirs if they don't exist
-WALLETS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-MINERS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+if not READ_ONLY:
+    # Create dirs if they don't exist
+    WALLETS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    MINERS_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 
 # Bittensor networks name
 NETWORKS = ["finney", "test", "archive", "local", "subvortex", "rao", "latent-lite"]

bittensor/utils/btlogging/loggingmachine.py

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 from statemachine import State, StateMachine
 
+from bittensor.core.settings import READ_ONLY
 from bittensor.core.config import Config
 from bittensor.utils.btlogging.console import BittensorConsole
 from .defines import (
@@ -584,9 +585,12 @@ def add_args(cls, parser: argparse.ArgumentParser, prefix: str = None):
             default_logging_info = os.getenv("BT_LOGGING_INFO") or False
             default_logging_trace = os.getenv("BT_LOGGING_TRACE") or False
             default_logging_record_log = os.getenv("BT_LOGGING_RECORD_LOG") or False
-            default_logging_logging_dir = os.getenv(
-                "BT_LOGGING_LOGGING_DIR"
-            ) or os.path.join("~", ".bittensor", "miners")
+            default_logging_logging_dir = (
+                None
+                if READ_ONLY
+                else os.getenv("BT_LOGGING_LOGGING_DIR")
+                or os.path.join("~", ".bittensor", "miners")
+            )
             parser.add_argument(
                 "--" + prefix_str + "logging.debug",
                 action="store_true",