ofloveandhate/paramotopy

parallel parameter homotopy through bertini

paramotopy's Issues

windows line endings in input file cause problems

when the input file has windows line endings, the extra character in CRLF compared to unix gets left at the end of lines when parsed. this causes:

• the expressions for the functions have an extra whitespace character at the end (benign?)
• if using a monte carlo file / user supplied parameter point file, step2 fails to find it because the name of the file has an extra invisible character at the end of it.

changing parameter specification in input file yields no change when running step2

you can change the parameter specification in the input file for paramotopy, and then run step2, and it still uses the old parameters...

possible options:

• always use one from current file
• ask user if want to re-parse
• check for diff, and if diff, ask

improve `step2` command line feedback

If I call step2 manually, it reports back that I shouldn't do that. But why not? At least make there be some feedback that explains how to call it, or how the arguments are parsed.

this is how useless it currently is:

integral:~ ofloveandhate$ step2
Insufficient, incorrect, or unparseable arguments... 
step2 is intended to be automatically called from paramotopy...

or, asking for help the usual way,

integral:~ ofloveandhate$ step2 -h
Insufficient, incorrect, or unparseable arguments... 
step2 is intended to be automatically called from paramotopy...
integral:~ ofloveandhate$ 

there's clear room for improvement here.