# HG changeset patch
# User Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com>
# Date 1421456923 28800
# Node ID ef915968d104bb0ccfe07984972a0c490b7aeaf7
# Parent  7927d7127f9abcf6edcc8b7149102f3cb5de68ee
put this in the parser so that i can use this in convert

diff -r 7927d7127f9a -r ef915968d104 numerics/convert.py
--- a/numerics/convert.py	Fri Jan 09 14:17:33 2015 -0800
+++ b/numerics/convert.py	Fri Jan 16 17:08:43 2015 -0800
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 __all__ = ['cast', 'float_or_orig', 'main']
 
-default_cast = (int, float, )
+default_cast = (int, float, str)
 
 def cast(to_type, *values):
 
diff -r 7927d7127f9a -r ef915968d104 numerics/read.py
--- a/numerics/read.py	Fri Jan 09 14:17:33 2015 -0800
+++ b/numerics/read.py	Fri Jan 16 17:08:43 2015 -0800
@@ -115,6 +115,30 @@
     def validate(self, options):
         """validate options"""
 
+    def read(self):
+        """read and process CSV"""
+
+        data = read_csv(*self.options.csv)
+
+        if self.options.added_columns:
+            # add columns
+            for row in data:
+                row.extend(options.added_columns)
+
+        if self.options.columns:
+            # filter by column
+            data = [[row[column] for column in self.options.columns]
+                    for row in data]
+
+        if self.options.index:
+            # prepend numeric index
+            for index, row in enumerate(data):
+                row.insert(0, index)
+
+        # return processed data
+        return data
+
+
 def main(args=sys.argv[1:]):
     """CLI"""
 
@@ -127,22 +151,7 @@
         options.csv = [sys.stdin]
 
     # read CSV
-    data = read_csv(*options.csv)
-
-    if options.added_columns:
-        # add columns
-        for row in data:
-            row.extend(options.added_columns)
-
-    if options.columns:
-        # filter by column
-        data = [[row[column] for column in options.columns]
-                for row in data]
-
-    if options.index:
-        # prepend numeric index
-        for index, row in enumerate(data):
-            row.insert(0, index)
+    data = parser.read()
 
     # write CSV
     writer = csv.writer(options.output)
diff -r 7927d7127f9a -r ef915968d104 setup.py
--- a/setup.py	Fri Jan 09 14:17:33 2015 -0800
+++ b/setup.py	Fri Jan 16 17:08:43 2015 -0800
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-setup packaging script for numerics
+setup packaging script for numerics python package
 """
 
 import os