Re: Request for obscure text formats

meshio [0] reads many (unstructured, particularly finite element) mesh file formats.  Some of these are binary but many are ASCII or contain ASCII variants.  Gmsh's MSH formats (versions 2.2 & 4.1) [1] have provided various challenges over the years.

[0] https://pypi.org/project/meshio

[1] https://gmsh.info/doc/texinfo/gmsh.html#File-formats


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Le samedi 26 juin 2021 à 10:31 PM, David Hagen <[email protected]> a écrit :

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