Ever wanted to read a huge pile of data from the Canadian Daily Climate CDs to run some batch analysis? The supplied programs on that CD only allow you to extract it in certain ways or browse it on the screen. It took me a day or two even with the format description to decode that binary format. And now I try to make sure that nobody needs to do that again and release my hack as free software (GPL). The program is only useful, if you have bought one of the CDs published by Environment Canada. It might also serve as an example of how to use the python struct module. It is not very well documented. Details at: http://www.uwm.edu/~bernhard/canadian_climate_cdformat/ Bernhard Reiter bernhard@ffii.org <P><A HREF="http://http://www.uwm.edu/~bernhard/canadian_climate_cdformat/index.en.html">Canadian Daily Climate CD Python module v990829</A> - free Python module hack to extract a lot of data from the proprietary "Canadian Daily Climate CDs", published by the Canadian Meterological Center. (12-Oct-99) == Research Assistant, Geog Dept UM-Milwaukee, USA. (www.uwm.edu/~bernhard) Association for a Free Informational Infrastructure (ffii.org) Intevation GmbH -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce@python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------