[SciPy-User] IO of large ASCII table data

[Erin Sheldon]

Excerpts from Robert Kern's message of Tue Aug 17 16:32:18 -0400 2010:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 15:21, erin.sheldon <erin.sheldon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Excerpts from Felix Schlesinger's message of Tue Aug 17 15:55:17 -0400 2010:
> >> > The recfile package is designed specifically for this purpose:
> >> > http://code.google.com/p/recfile/
> >>
> >> recfile looks very useful. Any reason its not on pypi? That would make
> >> maintaining it as a dependency much easier.
> >>
> >> Felix
> >
> > Felix -
> >
> > Interesting, I had never paid much attention to PyPI before as I have my
> > own methods for dealing with dependencies. But that looks like a great
> > resource and a nice way to distribute packages.
> >
> > I wouldn't know where to start with it though.  I would appreciate any
> > tips you could give (offline if you wish).
> 
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShopTutorial
> 
> Go down to the section "Submitting Packages to the Package Index".
> 
> I recommend removing the "ups" parts of the setup.py before making a
> general release.
> 

For those who are interested, recfile is now on pypi.

    http://pypi.python.org/pypi/recfile/0.40

Thanks for Robert and Felix for pointers.

Erin Scott Sheldon
Brookhaven National Laboratory