posts/Reading_IGOR_binary_waves_from_Python.mdwn

   1 [[!meta  title="Reading IGOR binary waves from Python"]]
   2 [[!meta  date="2010-06-04 18:48:46"]]
   3 I finally got around to translating some IBW readers from C to Python.
   4 And so, I present (drumroll :)
   5 [igorbinarywave.py](http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/hooke/file/tip/hooke/driver/igorbinarywave.py).
   6 Python because it's easy to drop it into my other Python projects (in
   7 this case, [Hooke](http://code.google.com/p/hooke/)).  It's also easy
   8 to get a hold of all that useful metadata in a hurry.  No writing
   9 ability yet, but I don't know why you'd want to move data that
  10 direction anyway ;).
  11
  12 Thanks to the folks at [WaveMetrics](http://www.wavemetrics.com/) for
  13 publishing some good
  14 [documentation](ftp://ftp.wavemetrics.net/IgorPro/Technical_Notes/TN003.zip),
  15 even if it's in a goofy format.
  16
  17 [[!tag tags/programming]]