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Re: 20050623: python + LDM
- Subject: Re: 20050623: python + LDM
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:46:46 -0600
Daryl,
>Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:28:49 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Daryl Herzmann <address@hidden>
>Organization: Indiana State University
>To: address@hidden,
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20050623: python + LDM
>Keywords: 200506231613.j5NGDeZu022545
The above message contained the following:
> Well, a good python coder could write faster code than a bad C programmer.
> The speed I am looking for is the ease of adaptation and the rich python
> library environment to do web service things with. As an aside, I would
> benchmark my Python Shef decoder against dcshef anyday :) In fact, that
> will be my first test to show how much faster the twisted adapter is than
> a CGI-ish invoked python (both my versions), I can't compete with dcshef
> since I don't write GEMPAK files out from python yet.
>
> Speaking of such, could I get the email of Kevin Smith referenced here:
>
> http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support/help/MailArchives/gempak/msg03224.html
I'll let him know about you and your work. Hopefully, he'll respond.
> > It appears that your code would only be good for textual products
> > because it looks for an STX control-character -- and binary products
> > would have plenty of those.
>
> Yeah, great point. I have never written a binary product decoder and will
> have to account for that. Thanks.
>
> > I'll run it past our Python expert.
>
> Sweet! I haven't seen anything in the archives about doing this, so I
> thought I would give it a hack.
>
> later,
> daryl
>
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Regards,
Steve Emmerson