Output file format
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Description
The output format of the MFILE.DAT and OUT.DAT is currently plain text. It could be advantageous to output these as TOML or similar, to standardise the output format whilst maintaining human readability.
This ties in with also being able to "dump" the final state of the program into a format that can be loaded again for analysis etc. Perhaps pickling is a better (if non-human readable) option here, as Python objects can be serialised with pickle. Perhaps this should be a different, if closely related, issue.
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Research direction
Start by locating the code that writes MFILE.DAT and OUT.DAT, then review the discussion of TOML, other human-readable formats, and Python pickle serialization. Done requires an agreed output format and a defined way to save and reload the program’s final state.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100