ethanzh/gpx-csv-converter

A handy tool for converting GPX files exported from Strava, WatShout, etc into easily readable CSV files

gpx-csv-converter's Issues

doesn't run by default

I can't get this to work out of the box, if I install it using pip install gpx_csv_converter and try to run a file:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "conv.py", line 1, in <module>
    import gpx_csv_converter
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/dist-packages/gpx_csv_converter/__init__.py", line 18
    raise TypeError(f"The file {input_file_name} does not exist.")
                                                                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I ended up working my way around it by taking the code out, but I don't know why I'm getting this error, assuming this should work without issues.

Time conversion not working?

I tried to convert a file from OSRM.org
This resulted in the following error:
File "/...gpx_csv_converter/__init__.py", line 48, in __init__ base_time = iso_to_epoch(times[0]) IndexError: list index out of range

Line 86 of "__init__.py

Hello,
In the line 86 of init.py, the file is open with 'wb', which returns the error "TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'".

Add ability to take file as input

Currently the module expects a string containing GPX data as input. This is obviously not feasible once the GPX files become sufficiently large.

I plan to have the module be able to accept a directory (where it will convert all GPX files in the directory) or an individual file (where it will convert that one file).

I'm leaning towards making these command-line arguments.

Encoding error when writing to csv: bytes-like object required instead of str

In python 3, one should
open(output_file_name, "w", encoding="utf-8", newline="")
at the very end of the script, instead of
open(output_file_name, "wb", encoding="utf-8", newline="")

Sorry I don't know how to contribute, I'm new to github

Thanks anyway for this script, it saved me time I don't want to spend learning XML ^^