Re: [Gnumed-devel] PIT importer

[Horst Herb]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 21:04, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > If run as "main", this module turns *.pit files into HTML files
>
> So much for the parser. What does the importer do ? Any plans
> to have it import into clinical tables ?

Well, as I said, it parses PIT files into Python dictionary objects. It 
implements the full specifications, except for the "font" and "pitch" tag, 
which to date no Pathology company in Australia is using. Trivial from there 
to pop the values into any clinical tables.

Currently, I still have to live with my simplified "mini-gnumed" / medibase 
chimera, so I myself import the results into that (which is just another 30 
lines of Python code). Probably useless for non-Australian gnumed users.

Implementationwise, I did not use the regex module on purpose, since it is 
missing on some platforms and I want to preserve maximum portability.

Anyway, it's now in test-area/hherb/gmPITParser.py

I would appreciate if my Australian colleagues could try it with different PIT 
files from different Pathology providers; so far I only know that it works 
with those produced by "Mayne Health", and even that is not thoroughly tested

Horst