Bug#602471: RE : Bug#602471: pymca: package unusable

[Picca Frédéric-Emmanuel]

Le Mon, 15 Nov 2010 11:59:22 +0100,
"V. Armando Solé" <sole at esrf.fr> a écrit :

> Hello,
> 
> On 15/11/2010 11:20, PICCA Frédéric-Emmanuel wrote:
> > At the end the problem is about the file format used to store the
> > information. SPEC files format which is not LOCAL neutral.
> >
> 
> By definition, the specfile format is locale C based as it is the format 
> and locale used by SPEC.

ok so it was just a problem of the spefile module using atof or similar methods.
Good.

> For actual data, the best alternative file format recognized by PyMca is 
> HDF5.
> 
> For the theoretical data used by PyMca, I still consider specfile is a 
> good choice because:
> 
> - the end users can simply use "vi" and change the theoretical constants 
> used by the program
> - they can easily access the data them using other tools
> 
> This opinion can evolve as the synchrotron users get more and more 
> confident on HDF5 and get used to edit HDF5 files with the appropriate 
> tools.

Yes this file hdf5 format is nice. But I agree that editing this by hand is a problem.
Did you looked ad yaml or json file format for there human editable/readable quality ?

> Best regards,

Regards,


Fred

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