Question: how does fitdecode decode the binary file?

polyvertex / fitdecode

A FIT file parsing and decoding library written in Python3

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Question: how does fitdecode decode the binary file? #11

Closed johncalab closed 4 years ago

johncalab commented 4 years ago

First off, thanks a lot for creating this!

Not an issue, I would just like to understand better how this whole thing works. I was reading through the source code to try and understand how on earth you are able to parse a binary file. So far I've found only the compute_crc function in utils.

Question1: is this the bit that does all the heavylifting when it comes to parsing the binary?

Question2: where do the values in the CRC_TABLE constant come from?

polyvertex commented 4 years ago

Your questions are more related to the Python programming language and the FIT file format, than the fitdecode library itself. Besides it would take a tremendous amount of time for someone to answer them. Sorry I cannot help with that.