swiss 0.2

Swiss Army Knife for Data Work

Swiss Army Knife for Data Work

The swiss package provides various utilities for working with data:

• Url caching and scraping

  • cache module

• Processing and transforming tabular data to and from various formats.

  • tabular module

• Cleaning up and parsing data.

  • misc and date modules

CHANGELOG

v0.2 2009-10-23

• Extensive refactoring of tabular module/package * Standardized interface with BaseReader and BaseWriter * JsonReader and JsonWriter providing json reading and writing * TxtWriter to support writing to plain text

• Improvements to date parsing (support for circa, ‘c.’, etc)

• New id module to do ‘compression’ of uuids using 32 and 64 bit encoding

v0.1 2009-06-03

• Bring together existing code (from last 2+ years) into new ‘swiss’ package

• Url caching and scraping

• Tabular data handling including csv reader/writer, xls reader, latex writer and associated utilities (such as pivot_table)

• Cleaning and parsing data especially dates (misc and date modules)