pyne/pyne — pull request #212 by paulromano (2013-12-04 04:45:50+00:00)
Title: Update ENSDF data and add small fix on ensdf.half_life.

I just noticed that pyne.dbgen.decay was using ENSDF data from November 2010. Evidently new ENSDF data is issued every six months or so. This pull request updates the pyne.dbgen.decay module to pull in the latest data on the IAEA site. Also, a small fix is added in ensdf.half_life in the parsing of ENSDF data. In one of the newer ENSDF file, you'll see energies appearing in the format "(0.04 MeV)". While the parentheses are valid in the ENSDF format, they were not accounted for in our parsing.

@scopatz Can you upload the latest ENSDF zip files to our Amazon S3 account?

One final note -- the updated data does not cause any of our tests to fail, so no changes in the test suite are needed.