Re: [cclib-devel] pre/post-parsing function for LogFile

[Adam T. <a-t...@st...>]

>> I have however, a different idea. What if .parse() were defined  
>> for the
>> generic class LogFile, and it did all the "generic" things, and  
>> also called
>> self.extract(), which would contain the "for line in  
>> self.inputfile" loop
>> that is specific to each parser (effectively replacing the  
>> current.parse()).
>> This way, we would have only one function more and all the  
>> benifits, and
>> again no change for the user.
>
> Indeed, I prefer this too.

I agree that this is a good idea. I also think ccopen and others  
should check to see if the logfile exists, and if not, print an error/ 
warning about it.

Adam