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Loads data from various formats

Project description

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data-dispenser
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Given a source of rowlike data, acts as a generator of OrderedDicts.

Usage::

src = Source('mydata.csv')
for row in src:
print(row)

data-dispenser thus serves as a single API for a variety of data sources.

* Free software: MIT license

Data source types supported
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* file names / paths
* open file objects
* pymongo Collection objects
* strings interpretable as data
* URLs beginning with http:// or https://

Will work most reliably against filenames with extensions that indicate
the data format; otherwise data-dispenser may guess the input format wrong.

Data input formats supported
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* csv
* yaml (requires ``pyyaml``)
* json
* pickle
* ``eval``-able Python
* xls
* xml (experimental)
* HTML with ``<table>``s

Multiple files
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File paths with wildcards will be
effectively concatenated into one large data source.

Load limits
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Large data sources could overwhelm your system's memory. Passing a ``limit``
keyword to the ``Source`` constructor limits the rows returned from each
source. For file paths with wildcards, the limit applies to each file
source, not to the number of file sources.

Code
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https://pypi.python.org/pypi/data_dispenser

Source and bug tracker
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https://github.com/catherinedevlin/data-dispenser





History
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0.1.0 (2014-05-21)
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* First release on PyPI.

0.1.1 (2014-05-23)
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* Fixed bugs in handling non-listlike YAML files

0.2.0 (2014-07-14)
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* Support .xls
* Support URLs
* Support wildcards

0.2.1 (2014-27-14)
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* Support .html

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