Apparently, Python on Windows defaults to assuming CP1252 encoding
unless otherwise specified, as opposed to the UTF-8 assumption made
on POSIX platforms. Since our configuration and data files are
expected to always use UTF-8 encoding, be clear in the
ConfigParser.read() calls about that. We only do this under Python
3.x, as that method doesn't have an encoding parameter in 2.7.
Thanks to Lance Bermudez for reporting this.
Just a basic correlation update based on more recent active METAR
station and WX zone lists. Also update the copyright year for files
which have been edited so far in 2021 as well as in the LICENSE
file.
The selections proxy class, which mashes together command-line
arguments and configuration options, contained a longstanding and
fatal flaw with its handling of boolean values. In particular,
falsey values were consistently treated as truthy due to naively
recasting str to bool (which will always yield True unless empty).
This went unnoticed for so long because the majority of these
settings default to False, meaning the only reason most users had to
set them was to override them to True.
Many thanks to Jordan Russell for bringing this bug to my attention,
and for supplying an initial patch on which this fix is heavily
based.
Co-Authored-By: Jordan Russell
Perform a fresh build of data sets from current sources, and add a
few additional overrides for previously unknown stations. Also
update from 2019 to 2021 US Census data, from March 2020 to
September 2021 CountyZone maps, and from 2020-08-29 to 2021-08-29
airport IDs and active METAR stations/WX zones.
Julien Palard pointed out that the way URLError exceptions were
being manually cobbled into the stderr stream wasn't quite working
(thanks!), but it was also unnecessarily complicated for reasons I
don't recall now. Rip most of it out and just go with a basic
catch/error/re-raise there instead.
As a more complete fix and future-proofing for the earlier mismatch
between default_atypes and the alert URLs generated for WX zones
during correlation, stop aborting and simply add a warning if a
requested alert type has no corresponding URL.
Kevin Monceaux reported a regression with the 2.4 release. Running
with the -a/--alert option and no limited --atypes or atypes
override in weatherrc resulted in a message about undefined URLs
and no normal output. This problem crept in when hard-coding alert
types in the correlator after ditching the woefully unmaintained
zonecatalog.curr.tar data source (commit 8a37edd).
Update default_atypes so that it covers all relevant non-forecast
URLs the correlate routine embeds.
While auditing Debian's packages, Chris Lamb reported[*] that
weather-util's correlation set generation is not reproducible
because it embeds timestamps without a means to override them and
also varies by system timezone. Allow SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH from the
calling environment and assume UTC rather than relying on locale
settings when no timezones are specified.
[*] https://bugs.debian.org/964721
Update a bunch of the parsing for various correlation source files
to work in both Python 2.7 and 3.5+, mostly where str vs bytes and
UTF-8 encoding/decoding are concerned. This can be cleaned up
significantly once support for 2.7 is finally dropped.
Add a copyright header to the .gitignore file with start and end
years determined from its commit history. Add copyright headers for
the current year to overrides.log and qa.log, and also add
functionality to correlate() which adds these headers from now on.
Update the copyright year on overrides.conf, which was missed in
8a37edd and later commits. All files tracked in this repository now
declare a copyright and refer to the main LICENSE file for licensing
terms.
Solve a SyntaxWarning under Python 3.8 and later for use of the "is"
identity operator when comparing literals, by replacing with the
"==" equality operator.
When mangling URLs of fetched data to store in the local cache, only
split on the first colon so that URLs with port numbers in them are
properly differentiated. Previously, all URLs for the same domain
name landed in a single file if a port number was included, causing
incorrect results to be returned from the cache.
Fix a cache corruption issue by using a new "cached" field to hold
the timestamp for cached correlation search results. Previously the
"description" field was being overloaded, but this could cause the
cache to no longer load because of duplicate fields.
Python 2.7 is likely the only Python 2 anyone is using any longer
(even that's well past EOL upstream now), and reasonably recent
versions of 2.7 it need the same decode hack as Python 3 anyway when
dealing with some retrieved content. Just get rid of the version
detection and do it under any version.
Thanks to Bill Agee for suggesting the Hong Kong Observatory's
weather forecast page. A custom filter is implemented to strip the
forecast text from the HTML page in which it is embedded (if anyone
finds a plaintext version published at an alternate URL, let me know
and I'll rip out the extra routine).
Override a number of active weather stations where searches of
various online sites return names and locations for them which are
not provided by the included sources.
Remove the stale metar.tbl and zonecatalog.curr.tar, which the USA
NWS hasn't been updating for many years, and add the public domain
airports.csv file from the amazing ourairports.com community. Also
update to latest (2019) USA Census Bureau location data, March 2020
WX zone information, cooperative sites list from 2018 (latest), and
regenerated active station and zone lists. Loss of the zonecatalog
necessitates directly applying various forecast and alert URL
patterns, though some which appeared unused by NWS for many years
were not included.
Clear out all old overrides, since the vast majority are obsoleted
by refreshed data, and build fresh correlation sets from the above
sources. Basically all sites have switched from HTTP to HTTPS, so
update URLs for this too.
One piecemeal use of the retired weather.noaa.gov/pub URL was missed
in the correlate() function, causing it to be reintroduced for
zone-based reports (such as forecasts) in a subsequent correlation
dataset update. Correct the invalid URLs in the zones file, and
update the correlation routine to embed the correct and working
tgftp.nws.noaa.gov hostname instead.
* overrides.conf: Latest source data corrections from
script-assisted research.
These remaining files are generated data. Normally they're not
something I feel good about committing into version control, but in
this case it allows for logging and tracking deltas in the data over
time...
* airports: Removed 18 airports corresponding to nonexistent
stations.
* stations: Removed 326 stations with no recent conditions, added
429.
* zones: Removed 45 zones with no recent forecasts, added 104.
* places, zctas: Based on latest Census Bureau data corrections,
updated with new correlations.
* overrides.log: Record of correlation set build.
* slist, zlist: State of active stations and weather zones at the
time of generation.
* overrides.conf: Latest source data corrections from
script-assisted research.
These remaining files are generated data. Normally they're not
something I feel good about committing into version control, but in
this case it allows for logging and tracking deltas in the data over
time...
* airports: Removed 527 airports corresponding to nonexistent
stations.
* stations: Removed 176 stations with no recent conditions, added
196.
* zones: Removed 5 zones with no recent forecasts.
* places, zctas: Based on latest Census Bureau data corrections,
updated with new correlations.
* overrides.log: Record of correlation set build.
* slist, zlist: State of active stations and weather zones at the
time of generation.
* INSTALL: Add a new section documenting the way in which newer
correlation data sets can be rebuilt and substituted for officially
distributed copies.
* overrides.conf: Latest source data corrections from
script-assisted research.
These remaining files are generated data. Normally they're not
something I feel good about committing into version control, but in
this case it allows for logging and tracking deltas in the data over
time...
* airports: Removed 42 airports corresponding to nonexistent
stations, added 8.
* stations: Removed 303 stations with no recent conditions, added
403.
* zones: Removed 15 zones with no recent forecasts, added 13.
* places, zctas: Based on latest Census Bureau data corrections,
updated with new correlations.
* overrides.log: Record of correlation set build.
* slist, zlist: State of active stations and weather zones at the
time of generation.
* weather.py(correlate): Note the updated URL to Census Bureau data
in file comments, and make the County-Public Forecast Zones
Correlation File parsing more robust against errors in the file
formatting.
* airports, places, stations, zctas, zones: Regenerated from the same
base dataset used in 2.0, but this time with weather.py's updated
correlate function which rounds radian floats to 7 decimal places. No
nodes were added or removed, and the only changes were to take their
coordinate and distance values from sub-nanometer 10^-16 precision to
sub-meter 10^-7, which is still generally at least an order of magnitude
smaller than the base data precision anyway. This should almost entirely
solve any rounding error fuzz in subsequent data file updates.
* overrides.conf: The data override configuration is now grouped and
alphabetized, so that it can have future updates more easily integrated.
No entries are added or removed in this change.
* overrides.conf: The data override configuration got very large and
unwieldy. In an effort to be able to normalize the content
programmatically, code comments have been replaced by comment
configuration options for each section.
* weather.py(correlate): The radian values in data files have a tendency
to vary by the tiniest rounding errors from one Python release to
another. By truncating them to the 7th decimal place, which is still
sub-meter resolution, this problem is minimized and the resulting data
diffs become far less noisy.
* INSTALL: The example for checking sys.path was syntactically invalid
for Python 3.x, so it has been fixed to work there as well as relatively
modern 2.x (tested with 2.5 since that's the oldest I had on hand).
* weather.py(correlate): Previously the airports, places, stations,
zctas and zones files lacked trailing newlines, so this trivial patch
adds them before each is closed for writing.
* weather.py(correlate): The United States Census Bureau altered the
format of their 2010 Gazetteer on August 22, 2012, adding and reordering
a few fields. The previous version of the parser assumed a fixed field
order and ceased to work with the updated data files, so now the order
is inferred from the column headings in the first line of each file
instead.
* weather.1(INPUT FILES): Updated the list of potential weatherrc
locations to reflect those mentioned in the INSTALL file, particularly
the addition of /etc/weather/weatherrc in the 2.0 release.
* weather.py(get_config): Adjusted the configuration search locations to
include /etc/weather/weatherrc, since the INSTALL file started
mentioning it in the 2.0 release even though it wasn't actually
implemented as pointed out by Ben Kohler.
* Release 2.0: Heavy rewrite with too many new features to enumerate
here in the ChangeLog file.
* NEWS: List of important changes since 1.x releases.
* weather, weather.py: Implemented support for Python 3000 as
requested by ptchinster on behalf of Arch Linux, conditions/forecast
searches by latitude/longitude requested by Brandt Daniels, support
for newer NOAA forecasts pointed out by Darryl Mouck and Richard
Dooling, custom URIs requested by Michel Pelzer, international
weather stations requested by Milton Hubsher, and fixed a metric
conversion issue with negative values reported by Jochen Keil,
Michiel Appelman and Stefan Metzlaff. Thanks to everyone for your
input and assistance!
* Release 1.5.
* (all): Updated copyright notices for 2010.
* FAQ, INSTALL, LICENSE, README: Reformatted as ReStructuredText.
* FAQ: Updated to mention alternative sources for NOAA's stations
list, in case the recommended one is unavailable (thanks Celejar!).
* NEWS: Renamed to ChangeLog and refactored into GNU format.
* weather: Added some comment padding between the shebang line and
the copyright, so that distributions wishing to carry patches which
modify the interpreter path don't have to refresh them every year
when the copyright line changes in their context.
* weather, weather.1, weatherrc.5, weather.py: Added experimental
alert, atypes, aurl and zones options to support retrieval,
filtering and formatting of unexpired NWS severe weather advisories.
* weather.1, weatherrc.5: Minor cosmetic fixes to option
descriptions.
* weather.1, weatherrc.5, weather.py: Added imperial and metric
options to filter/convert display units (thanks to Andrew Carter for
this suggestion!).
* weather.py: Fixed a METAR parsing error which would trigger an
IndexError exception if the NWS didn't have a station description on
file (thanks to Celejar for reporting the bug!). Fixed METAR title
line parsing to look for human-readable city and state in the first
line--previous code stopped showing the city name after NWS made
slight format mods. Upped the version to 1.5.
* weatherrc: Additional PIE (Saint Petersburg, FL), PNC (Ponca City,
OK), and PNS (Pensacola, FL) aliases.
