Swiss Ephemeris

[Peter Henry]

Hi

I hired a programmer to help to extract data for windows 10 64 Bit system

You will be able  generate data and  use for your models,  the idea is to
eventually get Swiss Ephemeris working as phython file
Create folder and use and drop Swedll64.dll and Swetest64.exe into same
folder as spreadsheet

Happy Easter

Peter

On 10 April 2017 at 02:52, Deborah Swanson <python at deborahswanson.net>
wrote:

> Peter Henry wrote, on Sunday, April 09, 2017 10:53 AM
> >
> > I have a package that has been altered to imported in to
> > python, however I tired to get is working but without success
> > I be missing something obvious
> >
> > The Swiss Ephemeris enable planetary coordinate  to be
> > imported and used in your program
> >
> > Files access https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyswisseph
> >
> > Many thanks in advance
> >
> > Peter
>
> I've also worked on the problem of getting sweph into Python and have
> mostly struck out so far myself.
>
> I found one reliable means to get sweph's planetary data into Python,
> but it's more or less a cheat. Nonetheless, if you want to see how much
> good it does you, try the Swiss Ephemeris Test Page at
> http://www.astro.com/swisseph/swetest.htm. If you can successfully
> formulate a query useful to your purposes, you can download a csv of
> results, read it into Python, and work from there. Right now I'm working
> on converting some Excel spreadsheets and Excel VBA I use into Python
> and recoding it all, using the CSVs for jumping off points. That works
> pretty well, except the times from swetest are off a bit and I haven't
> figured out why. But I'm concentrating on getting all my VBA code ported
> to Python, and will go back to getting bang on data from sweph after I
> have my code done.
>
> The first thing I tried was to get sweph's C source code into a free
> IDE, but that whole project went down in flames. You can read bits and
> pieces of that misadventure at the tail end of the "Python application
> launcher (for Python code)" thread. I found sweph's C source code at
> some link off "Programming interface to the Swiss Ephemeris" at
> http://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephprg.htm (or maybe it was on
> http://www.astro.com/swisseph/swephinfo_e.htm - I can't easily find it
> now, but the download link is in one of those two pages somewhere.)
>
> Then I tried picking through sweph's C source code, attempting to
> manually reproduce the logic and the calculations in Python. That was a
> highly qualified semi-success because the times were still off, but it
> essentially produces the most basic planetary data. The swetest output
> CSVs were more complete however, and easy to read the planetary data
> into Python from, so I'd pretty much abandoned efforts to "translate"
> the C source code. And now, all my efforts to leverage the C source
> code. Even if successful it would be a lot more time sunk into working
> with a language other than Python, which I likely wouldn't have a use
> for after this project is completed.
>
> However, I have seen bits here and there on this list that are at least
> interesting. Tim Chase mentioned in passing that he encapsulated C
> source code in a class, which may bear looking into. Lutz Horn also gave
> a link for building a Python module to add a C language library to
> Python, which also might be worth checking out:
> https://docs.python.org/3/extending/index.html (I changed the 2 to a 3
> from the link he gave, but you can change it back to 2 if your working
> in a build of Python 2.)
>
> But many thanks for your pypi link to pyswisseph, which I will check
> out. I can reply to this thread after I give it a shot and tell you what
> I think of it. But like I said earlier, that won't be until all my Excel
> VBA code, which jumps off from the sweph bare planetary data, is ported
> to Python and working. Could be awhile yet. And if pyswisseph doesn't
> pan out, I'll likely work on refining the two methods I have for
> producing the planetary data, both of which are only lacking precisely
> accurate time data in my local time, and both are off by only 5-30
> minutes. I easily limped along for years with my Excel spread sheets
> using the swetest CSVs for input, even though my times then were more
> than a day off.
>
> Good luck! (and this venture is a goodly portion of luck...)
>
> Deborah
>
> PS. I've been using medical astrology to look ahead at my medical
> condition for years in advance. And being off by a day or so doesn't
> matter that much when you're looking at trends over the course of years
> and decades. I also have a little software widget to look at the
> planetary data in graphical chart form at any particular second, also
> based on sweph, which has been quite astoundingly accurate in following
> the rather complex kaleidoscope of my symptoms during the course of a
> day. (Though it doesn't do you a bit of good if you forget to look!
> Which is my entire motivation to get it encoded and available with a few
> clicks.) And it is quite useful to know in advance what will be
> happening when, and most importantly when it will stop. Knowledge is
> power!
>
> Caveat. This kind of precision and accuracy is only found in the
> specific forms of astrology which relate to pure physical phenomena, and
> most of what you see these days masquerading as astrology is pure hooey,
> almost entirely invented on  a large scale in the Middle Ages and
> flowered in the Renaissance. By pure physical phenomena, which is the
> only phenomena that is at least debatably influenced by physical
> planetary forces, I mean things like the moon's tides, sunspots, plant
> and animal activity throughout the year, and supremely, the inner
> workings of the human body, the first wholly Western medicine devised by
> the ancient Greeks. (The ancient Greek physicians are an excellent
> fallback if modern medicine is failing you - if you can find enough that
> remains today of their art.)
>
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