code: def outputDeflections(self):
      
      try:
        # If wOutFile exists, has already been set by a setter
        self.wOutFile
        if self.Verbose:
          print("Output filename provided.")
      # Otherwise, it needs to be set by an configuration file
      except:
        try:
          self.wOutFile = self.configGet("string", "output", "DeflectionOut", optional=True)
        except:
          # if there is no parsable output string, do not generate output;
          # this allows the user to leave the line blank and produce no output
          if self.Debug:
            print("No output filename provided:")
            print("  not writing any deflection output to file")
      if self.wOutFile:
          if self.wOutFile[-4:] == '.npy':
            from numpy import save
            save(self.wOutFile,self.w)
          else:
            from numpy import savetxt
            # Shouldn't need more than mm precision, at very most
            savetxt(self.wOutFile,self.w,fmt='%.3f')
            if self.Verbose:
              print("Saving deflections --> " + self.wOutFile)
docs: Outputs a grid of deflections if an output directory is defined in the 
      configuration file
      
      If the filename given in the configuration file ends in ".npy", then a binary 
      numpy grid will be exported.
      
      Otherwise, an ASCII grid will be exported.