Get Bruker Parameters automatically ?

[TChauvire]

Hello all,
it appears that getting the tau1 / tau2 values are crucial to initiate your simulation.
I found tiresome to check in the .SPC files to get this info.
So here is a way to access it if you need by calling this function :

def GetExpParamValues(filename=str):
'''
Function to catch pulse_EPR parameters from Bruker pulse experiment data.
The function uses deerlab.deerload function to import the parameters description.

Parameters
----------
filename : full path to the filename
    DESCRIPTION. string

Returns
-------
BrukerParamDict : Dictionnary of Bruker common parameters name.
                 By instance BrukerParamDict['d1'] will return the value of d1 (tau1 in Bruker language
    DESCRIPTION. Dictionnary

'''
_, _, par = dl.deerload(filename, full_output=True)
PulseParameters = par['DSL']['ftEpr']['PlsSPELGlbTxt']
ListBrukerNames = ['d0', 'd1', 'd2', 'd3', 'd4', 'd5', 'd6', 'd7', 'd8',
                   'd9', 'd10', 'd11', 'd12', 'd30', 'd31', 'p0', 'p1',
                   'p2', 'p3', 'p4', 'p5', 'DAF', 'af0', 'af1', 'af2']
BrukerParamDict = {}
for i in range(len(ListBrukerNames)):
    KeywordToFind = ListBrukerNames[i]
    keywordlength = int(len(ListBrukerNames[i]))
    a = int()
    b = int()
    c = str()
    a = PulseParameters.find(KeywordToFind)  # find 1st index of keyword
    if a != -1:
        # find second index with adjacent ;
        b = PulseParameters.find(';', a)
        if b != -1:
            c = PulseParameters[a+keywordlength:b-1]
            try:
                value = float(c.replace('=', '').strip())
                BrukerParamDict.update({KeywordToFind: value, })
            except ValueError:
                pass  # do nothing
return BrukerParamDict

I don't like the try/except part of this code. But it works.
Would it be interesting to implement this in the deerlab package ?
Feel free to use it...

Best

Timothee