[SciPy-Dev] Adding an unformatted Fortran file reader to Scipy

[Paul Kuin]

My recollection is, that the unformatted fortran files are machine
specific, so cannot be moved to different architectures. I suppose that
should be flagged somehow. Of course portability was the reason for
developing HDF, CDF and FITS. A converter might be useful. The main reason
for using unformatted data files is of course speed. For that reason just
having a reader is kind of anomalous. I suppose someone might want to write
an unformatted file for reading into a fortran program - which needs a
writer. I guess this could be added when needed.

Cheers,

  Paul


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav at iki.fi> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There's a PR adding an unformatted Fortran file reader to Scipy:
>
>     https://github.com/scipy/scipy/pull/499
>
> This looks good to us, and will probably be merged shortly.
>
> If you have experience with reading unformatted Fortran files, and
> something seems to be missing, now would be a good time to point out
> what should still be added.
>
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> Pauli Virtanen
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