sword 0.0.3

# Sword

A Fast Data Mining C Library for Python

## Intro

sword is a Python C Extension for making data mining and data searching super fast. It’s designed to give you amazing performance in the comfort and simplicity of Python. sword offers a wide array of tools to parse and search tabular data, csv, xml, and much more.

### Status

sword is still in the active development phase. It currently supports some CSV functionality. More detailed and rich features will be released in coming patch releases.

## Functions

sword currently provides the following functions:

#### csv_read_row:

This function reads a single CSV row from a string, and returns a tuple containing:

• The list containing the row elements.

• The remaining unread string.

Example:

`py >>> import sword >>> sword.csv_read_row("54.7,32.6,54.7\n") ([b'54.7', b'32.6', b'54.7'], b'\n') `

#### csv_count_rows:

Counts the number of rows in a CSV-string

Exmaple:

`py >>> import sword >>> sword.csv_count_rows("1,2\n3,4\n5,5,5,5\n") 3 `

#### csv_count_cols:

Counts the number of columns in a CSv-string

Example:

`py >>> import sword >>> sword.csv_count_cols("1,2,3,4\n") 4 `