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Work out the header using an RE and scrub it automatically. Add a function to fetch 1 data item of a given type.
author Daniel O'Connor <darius@dons.net.au>
date Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:17:57 +0930
parents 37d6ceb4850f
children a124aa7067e7
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#!/usr/bin/env python

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import exceptions
import numpy
import re

headerre = re.compile('^(:[A-Z:]+ ).*') 

def clean(data):
    # The instrument might return some header before the data (TEK 2024B does this)
    m = headerre.match(data)
    if m == None:
        return data
    else:
        hlen = len(m.groups()[0])
        return(data[hlen:])

def getdata(data, dtype = float):
    '''Get a single data item'''
    data = clean(data)
    return dtype(data)

def bindecode(data, dtype = numpy.float32):
    '''Decode binary data, returns numpy array'''

    data = clean(data)

    if data[0] != '#':
        raise exceptions.ValueError('data length header incorrect')
    dlenlen = int(data[1])
    dlen = int(data[2:dlenlen + 2])
    if len(data) != dlen + 2 + dlenlen:
        raise exceptions.ValueError('length mismatch, header says %d, actually got %d bytes' % (dlen + 2 + dlenlen, len(data)))
    return numpy.frombuffer(data[2 + dlenlen:], dtype = dtype)

def ascdecode(data, dtype = numpy.float32):
    '''Decode ASCII data, returns numpy array'''

    data = clean(data)
    return numpy.fromstring(data, dtype = dtype, sep = ',')