Christoph Buchner

Using the pandas I/O facilities would probably be best: https://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/io.html This way you could use a continually maintained and extended solution for exactly your usecase. From a quick glance, hdf5,...

Ping @CasperSchippers, also see #277. I'd be careful to ask for "arbitrary datastructures", to be honest. Aside from that, a Pandas formatter/center point (i.e., put stuff into a DataFrame) that...

Note that pyvisa is [thread-safe](https://pyvisa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq/faq.html?highlight=thread#is-pyvisa-thread-safe), so the communication with the instrument should already be unproblematic. Where are you stumbling? I'd be interested in a repro procedure (ideally without needing a...

Hm, that is strange. I was previously using 3 parallel threads (GUI interaction, regular polls, scripted changes) to talk to a number of instruments, and did not have any problems....

If that's alright with you, create a merge request for the VISAAdapter, with the understanding that it might take quite some time to get it merged (we are low on...

The linter found some formatting issues (check in the changed files view, or run flake8 locally) :-)

This is looking good on a first pass, I left a couple of comments.

don't worry about delays, most of us are not too available nowadays. work on this at a pace you are comfortable with!

This is a failure of the docs CI job, I [fixed this quite recently](https://github.com/ralph-group/pymeasure/commit/de39dd1bef9059e5f9dea8552032923c26cf51fa) - merging/current master should fix that.

Hey! There is one request from Colin still pending about indentation fixes, and I just looked at the peak and opc methods that you remarked on and left a couple...