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pyNEMO namelist tool [nml meld]

skeleton overview

Objective

To create a simple tool to difference and/or format NEMO style namelists

Why?

Often it is painful to compare namelists that come from difference institutions that are formatted in a different fashion. It also becomes problematic moving from one code version to another (although less so now most of the cpp keys have been removed.

What?

A simple tool that can either be deployed as a GUI or on the command line that can perform the following:

• diff namelists
• generate a ref nameless from a particular code base
• check that your namelist complies with the code you're running
• reformat a namelist into a 'standard' format for a given code base
• copy settings from one namelist to another

Next steps:

• set up package structure
• add a Conda YML file for the environment
• employ a pre-commit hook for Black
• populate repo with exist ad-hoc code
• employ CI, to aid multi developers
• start sketching out some unit tests to employ
• document