combine_magic problems

[moonshoes87]

Lisa's issue Archaeomag_3

Step 1.3 combine_magic

something_specimens.txt
specimens.txt

Doesn't append nicely. Stub values.

When you go back to run step 1 a second or third time, things get weird.

A row with just specimen, sample can be dropped if there is another row.

[ltauxe]

Also, combine_magic.py doesn't seem to work at all on the command line.

[moonshoes87]

@ltauxe, here's an update on combine_magic.

First, the bug in Thellier GUI that we thought was due to combine_magic issues actually is from a pandas bug which will be fixed eventually. In the meantime, I wrote in a workaround to prevent the pandas bug from crashing Thellier GUI.

Second, combine_magic still works on the command line for me.

If it isn't working on the command line for you, could you send me the error message that you're seeing?

Last, I've added functionality so that combine_magic drops rows that are probably useless (rows where index is not unique AND no values but name/citations/magic_software are filled out). This should make it much more reasonable to run and rerun combine_magic. Try this out and see if the workflow feels more reasonable.