Parsing GPS receiver output via regex in Python

Question

I have a friend who is finishing up his masters degree in aerospace engineering. For his final project, he is on a small team tasked with writing a program for tracking weat

Answer 1

You could use a library like pynmea2 for parsing the NMEA log.

>>> import pynmea2
>>> msg = pynmea2.parse('$GPGGA,142927.829,2831.4705,N,08041.0067,W,1,07,1.0,7.9,M,-31.2,M,0.0,0000*4F')
>>> msg.timestamp, msg.latitude, msg.longitude, msg.altitude
(datetime.time(14, 29, 27), 28.524508333333333, -80.683445, 7.9)

Disclaimer: I am the author of pynmea2