TabularCompare

Tabular data comparison wrapper for DataComPy.

Quick Install

pip install tabularcompare

Basic Usage

Comparison object

import pandas as pd
from tabularcompare import Comparison

df1 = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "idx1": ["A", "B", "B", "C"],
        "idx2": ["01", "01", "02", "03"],
        "colA": ["AA", "BA", "BB", "CA"],
        "colB": [100, 200, 200, 300]
     }
)
df2 = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "idx1": ["A", "B", "C"],
        "idx2": ["01", "01", "03"],
        "colA": ["AA", "XA", "CA"],
        "colB": [101, 200, 300],
        "colC": ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
     }
)

comparison = Comparison(
    df1, df2, join_columns=["idx1", "idx2"]
)

Added Functionalities

• Diverging Subset

This method introduces an enhanced look at the changes identified at the intersection of compared DataFrames, following the notation {df1} --> {df2}.

comparison.diverging_subset()

	idx1	idx2	colA	colB
0	A	01	NaN	{100} --> {101}
1	B	01	{BA} --> {XA}	NaN

Rows that are unique to either DataFrame can be called via .df1_unq_rows() and .df2_unq_rows() methods.

comparison.df1_unq_rows()

	idx1	idx2	colA	colB
2	B	02	BB	200

Columns that are unique to either DataFrame can be called via .df1_unq_columns() and .df2_unq_columns() methods.

comparison.df2_unq_columns()

	idx1	idx2	colC
0	A	01	foo
1	B	01	bar
2	C	03	baz

• Enhanced Reporting

The report functionality is now callable from the comparison object. It includes a .txt, .html, and .xlsx version.

comparison.report_to_txt("./results/Report.txt")
comparison.report_to_html("./results/Report.html")
comparison.report_to_xlsx("./results/Report.xlsx", write_originals=True)

The Excel report will output complete comparison results, with tabs dedicated to:

• Original dataframes (when write_originals=True).
• Columns present only on df1 and/or df2.
• Rows present only on df1 and/or df2.
• Diverging subset showing all the changes identified from df1 to df2.

The HTML report will also output a rendered table of the diverging subset on top of the file, alongside the native DataComPy summary report.

• Fully-fledged Command Line Interface

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DataComPy Methods

Most methods native to datacompy.Compare functionality are still present, including;

• .report()
• .df1_unq_rows() / .df2_unq_rows()
• .df1_unq_columns() / .df2_unq_columns()
• .intersect_columns()
• .intersect_rows()

The native datacompy.Compare method is also callable from the tabularcompare core module:

from tabularcompare import Compare

# datacompy.Compare method
comparison = Compare(
    df1, df2, join_columns=["idx1", "idx2"]
)
print(comparison.report())

For a complete documentation on DataComPy you can head to DataComPy.

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CLI

Command Line Interface to output an Excel .xlsx report and, optionally, html and txt summaries.

tabularcompare --help

Usage: tabularcompare [OPTIONS] DF1 DF2

Options:
  -c, --columns, --on TEXT    Comma-separated list of key column(s) to compare
                              df1 against df2. When not provided, df1 and df2
                              will be matched on index.
  -ic, --ignore_columns TEXT  Comma-separated list of column(s) to ignore from
                              df1 and df2.
  -n1, --df1_name TEXT        Alias for Data frame 1. Default = df1
  -n2, --df2_name TEXT        Alias for Data frame 2. Default = df2
  -is, --ignore_spaces        Flag to strip and ignore whitespaces from string
                              columns.
  -ci, --case_insensitive     Flag to compare string columns on a case-
                              insensitive manner.
  -cl, --cast_lowercase       Flag to cast column names to lower case before
                              comparison.
  -at, --abs_tol FLOAT        Absolute tolerance between two numeric values.
  -rt, --rel_tol FLOAT        Relative tolerance between two numeric values.
  -txt, --txt                 Flag to output a .txt report with a comparison
                              summary.
  -html, --html               Flag to output an HTML report with a comparison
                              summary.
  -od, --only_deltas          Flag to suppress original dataframes from the
                              output .xlsx report.
  -o, --output, --out PATH    Output location for report files. Defaults to
                              current location.
  -e, --encoding TEXT         Character encoding to read df1 and df2.
  -v, --verbose               Verbosity.
  --help                      Show this message and exit.

Sample usage

The application reads from two file paths input for csv, json, or excel files.

cd ./data/
tabularcompare ./df1.csv ./df2.csv -c 'idx1,idx2' -n1 myTable1 -n2 myTable2 -o ../results/

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Caveat

The comparison results will take into account data types across columns. I.E. If we update our sample dataframe df2 to include a missing value on colB, it will now be of dtype object, as oposed to Int64 in df1. This might lead to miss-leading interpretations of the results to users without information on data types.

import pandas as pd
from tabularcompare import Comparison

df1 = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "idx1": ["A", "B", "B", "C"],
        "idx2": ["01", "01", "02", "03"],
        "colA": ["AA", "BA", "BB", "CA"],
        "colB": [100, 200, 200, 300]
     }
)
df2 = pd.DataFrame(
    {
        "idx1": ["A", "B", "C"],
        "idx2": ["01", "01", "03"],
        "colA": ["AA", "XA", "CA"],
        "colB": [pd.NA, 200, 300],
        "colC": ["foo", "bar", "baz"]
     }
)

comparison = Comparison(
    df1, df2, join_columns=["idx1", "idx2"]
)
comparison.diverging_subset()

Which will return:

	idx1	idx2	colA	colB
0	A	01	NaN	{100} --> {}
1	B	01	{BA} --> {XA}	{200} --> {200}
3	C	03	NaN	{300} --> {300}