Describe the Problem

Todd Spindler from NOAA/EMC wrote with questions about python embedding of MPR data in Stat-Analysis. He pointed out that read_ascii_mpr.py does not read the FIRST (VERSION) or LAST (CLIMO_CDF) column from the input .stat MPR line types. I've added as a comment to this issue my email response to him. The punchline is that skipping the first column is by design, but skipping the last column is a bug.

Expected Behavior

Python embedding of MPR data in Stat-Analysis should include the CLIMO_CDF column.

Environment

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1. Machine: Any platform. I demonstrated on my Mac laptop.
2. OS: MacOS
3. Software version number(s): MET main_v9.1 branch

To Reproduce

Describe the steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Save this version of read_ascii_mpr.py from main_v9.1 in which the MPR data is printed out:
   read_ascii_mpr.py.txt
2. Save this sample MPR data file:
   sample_mpr.txt
3. Run these commands:

mv read_ascii_mpr.py.txt read_ascii_mpr.py
stat_analysis -lookin python ./read_ascii_mpr.py sample_mpr.txt -job aggregate_stat -line_type MPR -out_line_type sl1l2 -by FCST_VAR

Inspect the output printed to the screen and note that the last (CLIMO_CDF) column is not included.

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NONE.

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2791541

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