On 11/21/2010 8:12 AM, Chris Begert wrote:
Hi Gurus I just wrote my first little python program; so yes I'm very new to all this. The goal in the end is to have a program that shows how the sun moves from the point of view of a given location (i.e. solar paths added to some sort of stereographic diagram). My very first program calculates the height (altitude) and direction of the sun (Azimuth) at a specific location during a specific time. So here's my question (I'm sure its obvious for most of you): How do I store a years worth of data of angles in an array / list / whatever is most useful when using Python? <snip>
Well now. You can store altitude and AZ in a tuple, and append that tuple to a list called, for example, data. data.append((altitude, AZ)), where data = list(). You will probably want to wrap all that calculation into a function that takes 6 arguments: longitude, latitude, month, day, hour, and minutes, instead of taking that input by hand. That way you can put everything into a nice for loop (in theory).
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