[[!meta  title="Reading IGOR binary waves from Python"]]
[[!meta  date="2010-06-04 18:48:46"]]
I finally got around to translating some IBW readers from C to Python.
And so, I present (drumroll :)
[igorbinarywave.py](http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/code/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/hooke/file/tip/hooke/driver/igorbinarywave.py).
Python because it's easy to drop it into my other Python projects (in
this case, [Hooke](http://code.google.com/p/hooke/)).  It's also easy
to get a hold of all that useful metadata in a hurry.  No writing
ability yet, but I don't know why you'd want to move data that
direction anyway ;).

Thanks to the folks at [WaveMetrics](http://www.wavemetrics.com/) for
publishing some good
[documentation](ftp://ftp.wavemetrics.net/IgorPro/Technical_Notes/TN003.zip),
even if it's in a goofy format.

[[!tag  programming]]