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[Karsten Hilbert]

Am Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 12:53:49PM -0500 schrieb Michael F. Stemper:

> This sounds like a suggestion that I hard-code the data into a
> module. I suppose that I could have half-a-dozen modules with
> different data sets and ln them as required:
>
> $ rm GenData.py* FuelData.py*
> $ ln gendata1.py GenData.py
> $ ln fueldata3.py FuelData.py

vi data.py

	generators = {}
	generators['name1'] = {'fuel': ..., ...}
	generators['name2'] = {...}
	...

vi simulation.py

	import sys
	import data

	generator = data.generators[sys.argv[1]]
	run_simulation(generator)

or some such ?

Your data "format" is ... Python code.

Karsten
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