Tag: python

Parsing in Python

I recently had to do some simple parsing in Python. Aside: the Python requirement isn't particularly principled (I am actually not a huge fan), but I go where matplotlib is. I don't think that I have seen a more useful plotting library or program yet. Having the full power of a programming language available to munge data into an appropriate form is a major improvement over ad-hoc data manipulation or selection primitives in tools like gnuplot. My only complaint at this point is that showing…

Another New Blog

Why a blog? Due to popular demand, I am trying to move some of my ranting and raving to more static and less visible media. At least here they are persistent beyond server logs. This seems fairly handy, though, and I think that I'll probably record some useful information here (if I ever happen to find any). Didn't we hear this before? It is true. In the not too distant past, I claimed that I would start a blog. I spent some time agonizing over choosing a platform, as you might expect. I ha…