 format, except where large blocks of floating point data are concerned.</p>
<p>When <strong>not to use</strong> <cite>byteparsing</cite>:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>You just need to parse some text: use <cite>pyparsing</cite>, it is the industry’s standard.</p></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Do use</strong> <cite>byteparsing</cite> if:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>You need to tinker with large binary OpenFOAM files directly from Python.</p></li>
<li><p>There is a different package that does not adhere to da