Via that Command Line

To run attrtoascii.py from the command line type the following,

python attrtoascii.py

Via the Embedded Grail (MSGe)

From within MS-3D select File->Run Script and select the attrtoascii.py script.

Via a Window's shortcut

Ensure you have %PYTHONHOME% define as a environment variable and that %MEDEXE% is available on your system path.

1. Right click on your desktop.
2. Select NEW->SHORTCUT
3. Browse to find your attrtoascii.py script (we will call it c:\attrtoascii.py for the purposes of this example).
4. Click NEXT.
5. Name it attrtoascii.py
6. Click OK.
7. Right click on the new shortcut.
8. Select PROPERTIES.
9. In the TARGET field insert "%PYTHONHOME%pythonw.exe" prior to c:\attrtoascii.py path.

Double click on the new icon to start the script.

Via another script

The attrtoascii.py script can also be used as module within your own script. Ensure that the attrtoascii.py script (an associated support scripts) are somewhere on your %PYTHONPATH% or within the same directory as your script. In your script you would do the following,

import attrtoascii

msrpath = "c:\\mydir\\myattr.msr"
collarpath = "c:\\mydir\\collar.dat"
surveypath = "c:\\mydir\\survey.dat"
assaypath = "c:\\mydir\\assay.dat"

attrtoascii.attr_to_ascii(msrpath,
                          collarpath,
                          surveypath,
                          assaypath)

You may also optionally specify that you want the contents dumped in CSV format by setting the "iscsv" keyword to 1 as in,

attrtoascii.attr_to_ascii(msrpath,
                          collarpath,
                          surveypath,
                          assaypath,
                          iscsv=1)

One trick you can do to make sure the "import attrtoascii" works is the following,

import os
import sys

# Insert the location of the attrtoascii file.
addPath = os.environ["MEDEXE"]\scripts\attrtoascii
sys.path = sys.path.insert(0, addPath)

import attrtoascii

This will make sure that when python imports attrtoascii, it will know to look into the %MEDEXE%\scripts\attrtoascii directory.