[Twisted-Python] Handling of NMEA messages
exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
exarkun at twistedmatrix.com
Wed Dec 1 06:43:40 MST 2010
On 29 Nov, 12:01 pm, albert.brandl at weiermayer.com wrote:
>Hi!
>
>We are working on a project that has to extract weather information
>from
>an NMEA stream. There is a NMEAReceiver class, but it only extracts GPS
>information - as expected, since the class is defined in t.p.gps.nmea.
>
>We intend to add the NMEA-0183 messages necessary for my purposes. The
>question is: should we just extend the NMEAReceiver? Weather
>information
>is not exactly what one would expect in a class below t.p.gps...
>
>On the other hand, it would be strange to create a different kind of
>NMEAReceiver which knows how to handle the messages dealing with
>weather data.
Perhaps the NMEA and GPS parts of NMEAReceiver can be separated from
each other, so that your weather extractor can use just the former and
ignore the latter.
You may also want to look at
https://code.launchpad.net/~lvh/twisted/positioning and see if it
influences your plans at all. It would be nice if we eventually merged
that code. :)
Jean-Paul
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