Handle missing position #418
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When an instrument records the position as e.g. "N/A" i should be treated the same as None. The easiest way to do this is to except both TypeError and ValueError.
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LGTM, can you show me some example output from an instrument? I was not aware that instruments were using "N/A" for latitude and longitude attributes. Do we know what else might be recorded in these fields? I want to, for instance, avoid recording fill values. |
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Coming into this as a programmer and not a domain expert. I'm not sure if the ship specifically reports N/A or if it is added downstream because no position signal was received. Here is a gist with an example hdr file with missing values: |
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Thanks. Regardless of how the N/A gets there, it does, and obviously needs to be handled. This looks like a general way to handle whatever the acquisition software (which is closed source) is producing. |
When an instrument records the position as e.g. "N/A" i should be treated the same as None. The easiest way to do this is to except both TypeError and ValueError.