COMTRADE Import

[idahogray]

I am curious if there would be any interest in having COMTRADE import functionality in core pandas. This is a file format used to record electrical transient measurements in a power system. It is defined by IEEE C37.111. I have an implementation that reads the files and creates a pandas dataframe. I would be willing to devote some time to creating a read_comtrade() method in pandas if there is interest. Otherwise, I will just create a third-party library.

[TomAugspurger]

Seems a bit too specific for inclusion in pandas. Reminds me of the root file format (used pretty much exclusively by physicists AFAICT). xref #9378 which didn't really get settled.

[jorisvandenbossche]

Indeed, I agree with @TomAugspurger. There are very many possible formats that could be included in pandas, so we have to limit the scope of core pandas to keep it manageable.
But, I certainly want to encourage you just make a package of it, and we can certainly highlight it in the docs as third-party extension!

[idahogray]

Great, thanks for the feedback. I will close this issue and create a third-party library.

[jsgaleano]

i'm very interested in seeing this application