[APBeta] an obscure bug in importing?

[Roberto Abraham]

Hi Paul,

On 2011-09-03, at 12:00 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:

>> (Parenthetically, I also note that the screenshot shows that the save button on the dialog box to save the format settings is grayed out... I think this might also be a bug).
> 
> That's happening in the Mac OS X Finder Navigation code (out of my control). It might be a Lion issue. What happens if you click in the "Parameters.txt" entry? Does changing it to "Parameters1.txt" help?

Yup. Changing it to "Parameters1.txt"  activates the save button.


>> My original suspicion is that this might have uncovered some sort of unicode bug (i.e. the minus sign in the WDS I.D. might not be an ASCII minus sign and some sort of unicode thing instead) but as far as I can tell it isn't that (I did a search and replace on the minus sign in a text editor).
> 
> I notice that the text file contains three "bogus" characters at the very beginning of the file which causes a problem with the first entry (appears as "???" on your screenshot). I suspect this might be a Unicode BOM (?) text encoding signifier or something. I'll look into ignoring such things if I find them.


I'm guessing you're right that it's some sort of Unicode thing at the start of the file, as the bogus characters are invisible in a text editor.

Writing the plan file directly via Python and then using 'Refresh Objects from Catalogues' to fill in the missing fields worked great by the way. I love the way AstroPlanner stores stuff as sqlite files. Very versatile.

Cheers,

Bob

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