On 9/13/2014 9:34 PM, je...@newsguy.com wrote:
Hello. Back in the '80s, I wrote a fractal generator, which, over the years, I've modified/etc to run under Windows. I've been an Assembly Language programmer for decades. Recently, I decided to learn a new language, and decided on Python, and I just love it, and the various IDEs. Anyway, something I thought would be interesting, would be to export some data from my fractal program (I call it MXP), and write something in Python and its various scientific data analysis and plotting modules, and... well, see what's in there.
First you need to think about (and document) what your numbers mean and how they should be organized for analysis.
An example of the data: 1.850358651774470E-0002
Why is this so smaller than the next numbers. Are all those digits significant, or are they mostly just noise -- and best dropped by rounding the number to a few significant digits.
32 22 27 ... (this format repeats)
After exactly 3 numbers in this range?
So, I wrote a procedure in MXP which converts "the data" and exports a csv file.
Answer the questions above before writing code. .csf is likely not the best format to use.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
