Collecting features and limitations of the two datasets packages

[JohnMrziglod]

typhon.datasets

Limitations

• Limited documentation.
• Lacking tests.
• Overuse of multiple inheritance.
• Some methods defined in wrong place in class hierarchy.
• Hard to use. This is related to the limited documentation and the overuse of multiple inheritance, but that is not the only problem.

Features

TODO: Edit to add feature description

typhon.spareice.datasets

Limitations

• No RegEx support for parsing additional information from filenames
• No RegEx support for generating new files
• So far only file handlers for the HDF versions of MHS and CloudSat files are available
• No testing for more complex datasets

Features

• Focus on usability and maintainability
• Should work with any kind of temporal datasets
• Extendable by using customized file handlers
• Mapping functions with multiprocessing support
• find_files method can return files in bundles (either by size or temporal bins)