Identify code throughout METplus components that are common utilities

[bikegeek]

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There are potential utilities that can be used for METplus wrappers, METplotpy, METcalcpy, METdatadb, and/or METviewer. Collect potential common utilities.

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• Internal: Organize utility scripts used by multiple wrappers #344

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• METplus, MET, METdatadb, METviewer, METexpress, METcalcpy, METplotpy

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[georgemccabe]

Python scripts that would be useful for multiple projects:

• Regression testing diffing scripts

[georgemccabe]

Breaking up metplus/util/met_util.py into multiple files with related functionality would make this easier. Here is the existing issue for that: #344

[georgemccabe]

Some work has been done to move functions in metplus/util/met_util into other files that are specific to a given utility. The most likely candidate for a utility in the METplus repo that would be useful to other repositories is the diff_util that is used for comparing files in the automated tests. Other utilities such as string template substitution logic could potentially be useful but we do not currently have a specific need for that logic in other repos.

Closing this issue because the task was to identify common utilities.