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This module is built on top of a sizeable collection of other modules. Here are their imports.
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We'll need the standard Python sys module for
access to standard I/O streams. We also need os
and stat to retrieve file timestamps, datetime for calendar functions, and the standard
regular expression library re.
import sys import os import stat import datetime import re
XML processing is done using the lxml.etree
package. We call this module et here.
from lxml import etree as et
Because the module manipulates GPS waypoints, we next
import a part of the author's mapping package, terrapos.py. See the documentation, A Python mapping package.
import terrapos
The next module is a vital part of the bird records system:
the taxonomy module. See the documentation: A
system for representing bird taxonomy. Module txny.py is the main
taxonomy module. Module abbr.py
contains auxiliary functions for handling general bird
identifications including species pairs and hybrids.
import xnomo3 import abbr as abbrModule
Rather than use string constants for the names of the XML
elements and attributes in the birdnotes.rnc
schema, we use a script named pyrang to extract those names and write a
file named rnc.py
containing declarations of symbolic names for each one.
For more information, see the documentation for pyrang. See also the generated actual rnc.py file.
import rnc