Re: [cclib-devel] Separation of parsers and data

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

On 12/07/07, Karol Langner <kar...@kn...> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 July 2007 03:03, Karol Langner wrote:
> > The biggest change is that Logfile.parse() returns something, that is an
> > instance of cclibData, which should hold the parsed attributes upen return.
> > It is the biggest, because it changes the way cclib will be used. Now you
> > need to write something like "data = ccopen(...).parse()" and data will
> > hold the parsed data.
>
> Maybe a function like ccparse(arg) = ccopen(arg).parse() would make a good
> shortcut?

I feel like we're starting to overengineer here, and likely to confuse
users who just want a single way to parse files. We separated parse()
on purpose, so that people could have access to the settings before
parsing. If you feel that *this* is not necessary, I would be
interested in removing that.

> --
> written by Karol Langner
> Thu Jul 12 09:24:22 EDT 2007
>