Subject: Possible long term solution to unspecified file formats...
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 11:30 PM, Andreas Kadavanich
<andreas at kadavanich.us> wrote:
> I?m with the UNIX crowd on this one.

Debian is also using binary packages. :-)

If you don't consider disk space limitations, I think storing as either
ASCII or Binary is not the the key issue that you are having. I think,
you are struggeling with the defined readout of the data of a
proprietary data format. Open Data Format Specifications are part of
the unix/GNU philosophy so I think that an open data format for storing
spectra is what you want. The easiest is of course csv. If you store
various information in the header, you will *definitely* run into
problems parsing them. JSON is a Unicode based data stream format and
is readable by any text editor but you can also export to csv or plain
text from Python if you like that better.

Regards


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