Has the latest WeeWx and Python3 changes made the github fileparse.py file not work?

[D R]

I am getting my bearings in the skins and language structure and got one weather station (rainwise ip100) back working.

While still very shaky with the details of the language, thought I might exercise my brain by trying to get my Campbell Scientific station feeding Weather Display to also make the file necessary so that using Fileparse to read a file so the beautiful graphics of WeeWx can be posted to my web server, along with having more weather information available than what the aging RainWise station can provide (like solar, snow depth, etc.)

I see the original file was written in 2014, and that the last modification (if that is what a commit is) was in October of 2019.

Since then WeeWx has been updated a few times, and Python3 is what I'm running.  I've seen that some comments on other code is that Python3 doesn't always go backward to run old code, so as I study the situation and try to figure out how fileparse works, and whether or not Weather Display can be configured to write a file that fileparse will successfully read, it would be nice to know if that block of code is compatible with the current WeeWx 4.5.1 and the last python3 distribution package.  Has anyone run fileparse with the latest releases?

Thanks. Dale

[Tom Keffer]

If you take a look at the fileparse change log, you'll see that it was ported to Python 3 two years ago. It should also work with the latest version of WeeWX. Are you having a specific problem?

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[D R]

I am learning about Github, too, and didn't realize such info was posted and things list updated to Python3 was in those files.  I'll know to look there in the future.  Thanks!

No, I'm not having any particular problem.  I just printed out the fileparse code and wanted to study it to try to figure out how things are done, a learning exercise, to see if I can then go the next step and make the output of the Weather Display clinetraw.txt or some such file, and then learn how to take that, extract the data, then format it into a file that fileparse will read and furnish to WeeWx.

I'm not anywhere as far along as you were thinking when you asked if I was having a problem!  Certainly not with WeeWx, just me learning.  Thanks.  Dale

[Tom Keffer]

Cool!

Just to warn you, the "change log" is something we do, not GitHub. It's manually updated after every change. There are automated tools that can automatically update change logs, but we don't use any of them. Our development process is pretty stone age.

One recommendation: a good development environment can make a lot of difference. PyCharm is great and, best of all, they offer a free "community" version. 

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