xearth

xearth - Imports xearth-style marker files.

class upoints.xearth.Xearth(latitude, longitude, comment=None)[source]

Bases: upoints.point.Point

Class for representing a location from a Xearth marker.

New in version 0.2.0.

Initialise a new Xearth object.

Parameters:
  • latitude (float) – Location’s latitude
  • longitude (float) – Location’s longitude
  • comment (str) – Comment for location
class upoints.xearth.Xearths(marker_file=None)[source]

Bases: upoints.point.KeyedPoints

Class for representing a group of Xearth objects.

New in version 0.5.1.

Initialise a new Xearths object.

import_locations(marker_file)[source]

Parse Xearth data files.

import_locations() returns a dictionary with keys containing the xearth name, and values consisting of a Xearth object and a string containing any comment found in the marker file.

It expects Xearth marker files in the following format:

# Comment

52.015     -0.221 "Home"          # James Rowe's home
52.6333    -2.5   "Telford"

Any empty line or line starting with a ‘#’ is ignored. All data lines are whitespace-normalised, so actual layout should have no effect. The above file processed by import_locations() will return the following dict object:

{'Home': point.Point(52.015, -0.221, "James Rowe's home"),
 'Telford': point.Point(52.6333, -2.5, None)}

Note

This function also handles the extended xplanet marker files whose points can optionally contain added xplanet specific keywords for defining colours and fonts.

Parameters:marker_file (iter) – Xearth marker data to read
Returns:Named locations with optional comments
Return type:dict