IBP banding data system: Internal maintenance specification

Here is the beginning of the dbfstruct script. It starts with a line to make it self-executing on Unix systems (the “pound-bang” line), followed by a pointer back here to the documentation.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#================================================================
# dbfstruct:  Display the structure of a dBASE .dbf file.
# For documentation, see:
#   http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/z/ibp/doc/iband7/ims/
#----------------------------------------------------------------

Two modules are imported. The standard Python sys module gives us access to the command line arguments and standard I/O streams. The dbf module is described in Section 90, “The dbfpy package for reading dBASE V files”.

#================================================================
# Imports
#----------------------------------------------------------------

import sys
from dbf import *