[Imgcif-l] Reading CBF file headers from Python with PyCifRW

[James Hester]

I'm glad you like PyCifRW...but at the moment it won't play well with cbf,
as it is expecting pure ASCII for all tokens.  I'll look into graceful
handling of syntax errors, so you at least get back anything that has been
successfully parsed.

I once thought it might be nice if PyCIFRW could deal with imgCIF and CBF
files, but quickly realised that I would need to be using a C library for
speed and would thus have issues distributing it in a uniform cross-platform
manner.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:49 PM, <Graeme.Winter at diamond.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Has anyone tried reading cbf files with PyCifRW? It appears to cope fine
> with the "real" cif at the top but then chokes when it hits the binary
> data. I'd like to be able to just read the cif describing the
> experiment, so in theory there should be a way to do this. If I copy out
> just the cif into another file it works fine.
>
> Thing is, I don't want to copy the cif out to read it when I want to
> parse every header in a data set :o) - has anyone a workaround for this?
>
>
> I like PyCifRW as it's included in cctbx and works just fine. The pycbf
> isn't built by default :o(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graeme
>
>
>
> Dr. Graeme Winter
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