Re: [gpsd-users] Python client bindings

[Eric S. Raymond]

Stoyan Haralampiev <address@hidden>:
> And now on the issues I found in *gps.py *that I mentioned. They're about
> variables that get initialized but never updated:
> 1) (line 106) self.status = STATUS_NO_FIX
> 2) (line 110) self.xdop = self.ydop = self.vdop = self.tdop = 0
>          self.pdop = self.hdop = self.gdop = 0.0
> 
> I remember I had some other issue but I don't remember it right now.
> Basically the above ones made me quite suspicious as to the quality of the
> python bindings and hence my question in the first email.

They're set all right, but in a sneaky way that would be difficult for
you to detect by grepping the code. The nagic is in client.py, in the
unpack method of the gpsjson class.
 
> Thanks and let me know if you need more details.

If you've detected any actual bugs in the bindings I certainly want to
know about it. You can test them by running xgps and cgps in parallel
and looking for divergences; cgps uses the C client bindings, xgps
uses the Python ones.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>