Logger.py set up a logger which supports console, rolling file, and/or SMTP logging methods

• addArgs(parser:argparse.ArgumentParser) adds command line arguments for setting up logging
• mkLogger(args:argparse.ArgumentParser, fmt:str, name:str) uses the args to setup the logger
  • fmt is the logging message format, by default "%(asctime)s %(threadName)s %(levelname)s: %(message)s"
  • name is the logger to setup

Thread.py is a threading.Thread class which catches exceptions and sends them to a queue. Then the main thread can wait on the queue for a problem to arise in any of the threads.

INotify.py is a thread which waits for modifications in a file system then forwards the modifications to a set of queues for other threads to process. It handles adding/removing of directories.

GreatCircle.py calculates great circle distances on the earth in meters using Vincenty's method. Compared against Matlab's distance function, distance.sample.nc, it should give a maximum difference around 1e-7.