A module of the pyhdf package for parsing ODL text
 
Maintainer: Enthought, Inc.
        Austin, TX
        enthought-dev@mail.enthought.com
        
Version: 0.8
Date:    July 14 2008
 
Introduction
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A large amount of HDF data is stored in ODL (Object Description Language). For this reason, pyhdf includes a simple parser in the pyhdf.odl_parser module. The main function in pyhdf.odl_parser is parse_odl. parse_odl is passed ODL text as a string, and returns a dictionary-of-dictionaries, where the keys are either group names or object names. The value of an object name is a dictionary containing its attributes. The value of a group name is a dictionary containing its objects or subgroups. Note that the parser is not perfect; while it supports all commonly-used aspects of the ODL language, more esoteric aspects (such as arbitrary bases) are not supported. Also, a BEGIN_GROUP can be closed by an END_OBJECT, and vice versa.