[SciPy-User] Request for obscure text formats

[Olivier Crouzet]

Hi David,

are you interested in issues with text encoding (especially accented
characters) or only in data localisation? Is it only "text" or binary
data as well (one of the instruments I use generates binary files
with no appropriate tool that would be adapted to contemporaneous
usage and I had to reverse-engineer the format myself)? 

Yours
Olivier.

On Sat, 26 Jun 2021
08:31:59 -0400 David Hagen <david at drhagen.com> wrote:

> Scientists,
> 
> I am looking for examples of obscure text file formats. These files
> are often generated by scientific instruments to be read by their
> proprietary software. Or they might come from a program not intended
> to be machine readable. These examples are for some motivation slides
> for my SciPy conference talk [1] on Parsita.
> 
> If you have an example, please send it my way. If you don't want to
> send a whole file, enough text to fill a slide is sufficient.
> 
> Thanks so much!
> 
> David Hagen
> 
> 
> [1] https://www.scipy2021.scipy.org/schedule
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