IBP banding data system: Internal maintenance specification

The script starts with the usual “pound-bang” line to make it self-executing, and a comment that points back to the documentation.

#!/usr/bin/env python
#================================================================
# spec2004:  Look up species code in the MAPS 2004 authority file.
# For documentation, see:
#   http://www.nmt.edu/~shipman/z/ibp/doc/iband7/ims/
#----------------------------------------------------------------

Next, imports: we'll need sys for the usual Python functions; re, the Python regular expression module; plus the base classes for this application.

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

import sys
import re
from baseclasses import *