Chunky

About:

Chunky is a simple utility for validating, parsing and producing useful output from ABC/hr listening test result files. Chunky is written in Python. Please send any compliments, comments, bug reports, complaints or patches to <phong@phong.org>.

The impatient can jump straight to the download section.

There are two major components to chunky. The front end provides a command line interface and produces output files. The back-end, abchr_parser.py, handles all the parsing duties. Other front ends could easily be written (if a GUI was desired, for instance.)

Chunky is Free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Features:

• Produces output suitable for input into ff123's friedman statistical analysing tool
• Makes a fancy .csv spreadsheet summarizing all the data
• Validates result files based on configurable criteria
• Munges data in useful ways
• Quite possibly highly portable
• Spiffily colored warning/error messages
• Calculates binomial probabilities for ABX tests
• Softens hands while you do dishes

Docs:

You can read the chunky online docs or get help by running chunky with -h or --help.

Download chunky:

The current version of chunky is 0.8.4 (beta)

• chunky-0.8.4.tar.gz (python source)
• chunky-0.8.4-win.zip (windows executable)

Older versions:

• chunky-0.8.3.tar.gz (python source)
• chunky-0.8.3-win.zip (windows executable)
• chunky-0.8.2.tar.gz (python source)
• chunky-0.8.2-win.zip (windows executable)
• chunky-0.8.1.tar.gz (python source)
• chunky-0.8.1-win.zip (windows executable)
• chunky-0.8.0.tar.gz (python source)
• chunky-0.7.1.tar.gz (python source)
• chunky-0.7.0.tar.gz (python source)

Changelog:

Chunky includes a semi-detailed changelog. Significant changes include:

2004-05-25: chunky-0.8.4-beta

• Fixed bug where it wouldn't accept .xml extensions
• Changed default behavior - now rejects all files with ranked references by default (assumes -p 0.0 unless specified otherwise)

2004-05-18: chunky-0.8.3-beta

• Support for XML result files from Schnofler's Java ABC/hr

2004-02-26: chunky-0.8.2-beta

• Clarified and added examples to interactive docs
• Made some error messages more verbose
• Made abchr_parser.py handle ---------- in comments more gracefully

2004-01-29: chunky-0.8.1-beta

• Implemented -f/--codec-file option (oops)
• Fixed some minor bugs
• Tested in windows - can now claim "worksforme" for larger portion of target audience
• New py2exe "compiled" version for windows users who don't want to install Python

2003-10-03: chunky-0.8.0-beta

• Spreadsheet output includes lots of new information
• Lots of code has been cleaned up or clarified
• Calculates binomial pvals for ABX tests and checks them against the pval in the file
• More useful error messages, increasingly robust file integrity checking
• Lots of minor fixes (small bugs, spelling errors, etc.)

2003-10-03: chunky-0.7.1-beta

• Improved error handling
• Various minor code cleanups, spelling fixes, etc.
• Somewhat more robust parsing with better error reporting
• Much improved command line parsing
• More color, and a --no-color option
• Word wrapping to improve legibility of output/error messages

2003-10-01: chunky-0.7.0-beta

• Initial public release