Re: Request for obscure text formats

Hi David,

At the top of https://docs.astropy.org/en/stable/io/ascii/index.html you
will find a number of formats that are common or at least used in
astronomy. Several of these are not quite easy for machine reading. CDS
stands out as a format that is both quite difficult to fully machine parse
and widely used via a popular astronomical catalog data server (
http://webviz.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR). Another tricky one is QDP (see
example in
https://docs.astropy.org/en/latest/_modules/astropy/io/ascii/qdp.html#QDP).
This is more obscure but is still being output as a data product for a NASA
mission.

Cheers,
Tom


On Sat, Jun 26, 2021 at 8:54 AM David Hagen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Scientists,
>
> I am looking for examples of obscure text file formats. These files
> are often generated by scientific instruments to be read by their
> proprietary software. Or they might come from a program not intended
> to be machine readable. These examples are for some motivation slides
> for my SciPy conference talk [1] on Parsita.
>
> If you have an example, please send it my way. If you don't want to
> send a whole file, enough text to fill a slide is sufficient.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
> David Hagen
>
>
> [1] https://www.scipy2021.scipy.org/schedule
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