A comma-separated values (CSV) file stores tabular data (numbers and text) as plain text, with rows and columns delimited by line terminators and commas, respectively. You may also use this tag for variants where fields are separated by tabs or semicolons.
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Speeding up filtering function in Pandas
I have a CSV file with 400 000 rows and the following headers:
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A module to display, update and save a dictionary as .csv v2.0
I'd like feedback on my revised code after my previous question.
The goal is to create a module which can display, update, save dictionaries as .csv files. I'll use this in another program to update ...
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A program to display, update and save a dictionary as .csv
I'm now looking for feedback on v2.0 of this program instead.
I'd like some feedback about my code. What bad habits do I have? What advice could help me write more Pythonic?
I'm trying to write a ...
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Processing Excel files of a predefined template to generate output CSV files of another predefined template
I'm a freelancer and I recently wrote a python script that processes input xlsx files that contain data in a particular format and output a csv file in another format as required.
The code works well ...
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Vectorize Fisher's Exact Test
I have two data frames/ lists of data, humanSplit and ratSplit, and they are of the form
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Adding file name information to CSV file columns
Is there a simple way to combine the functions of this Powershell script? It would be nice to have it file to one output file instead of several output files.
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Creating two output files from two formatted files
I've been working on a project to take data from csv files, re-format it, and display it as charts. I'm working for a company over the summer and when I leave, I would like my code to be ...
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Returning information about the result of a file processing, without using output parameters [closed]
As part of a C# class CsvConverter that converts various file types to CSV, I am designing a private class CsvConversionResult. ...
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Find the peak stock price for each company from CSV data
During the hiring process, a company gave me this test:
Q) Consider Share prices for a N number of companies given for each month since year 1990 in a CSV file. Format of the file is as below ...
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CSV demographics analyzer seems to waste memory/move slowly
I'm much more fluent in JS, but I needed to sort a lot of dates, ages, genders, etc. from a tab-delimited text file so I wrote this. Could I get some tips on how to make this more efficient and more ...
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CSV reader (revised)
This is the successor of my previous CSV reader. I implemented quite some useful suggestions.
I will give explanation on a few parts:
Prefixing constant identifiers with ...
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Convert total minutes into “Hours:minute:seconds” for marathon data
The point of the script below is to read in the 10th column which is the total number of minutes a runner took to finish the marathon and convert it into form of "hours:minutes:seconds". Is there a ...
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CSV reader and parser
I have implemented a CSV reader. I think I did pretty well. Since CSV is a loosely defined format to begin with I decided to allow some malformations, like anything but a delimiter after an enclosed ...
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Parsing CSV to specific format
I've written this code to read CSV files written to a specific format. I would like to gather some feedback on where it could be improved. I'm trying to get into the test driven development ideology ...
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Refactoring Tkinter GUI that reads from and updates csv files, and opens E-Run files
Background
My lab administers four computer programs in three separate appointments. At each appointment, the subject does the programs in a pseudo-randomized order. Also, three of the programs have ...
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explode textarea and commas [closed]
Am attempting to recreate a common feature, where a user can type several items in to a textarea, separated by commas and newlines and then submit them, i.e. for multiple record entry.
The data does ...
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Converting JDBC to CSV
One of my first ever jython scripts lets me get comma-separated values out of an RDBMS. I submit it here in hopes that you'll rip me apart. Without further ado, have at it:
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Command line tools to format tables
I am a big fan of one-liners using sed awk perl and other tools. But there are that are ...
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Improving performances processing compressed csv files
I have some csv files compressed in .bz2 format. I need to take a subset of the records (and data) and switch to .gz.
I am not ...
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Finding nearest city from a center place (latitude and longitude) with radius in miles
This is my code for finding the nearest city within a certain radius. I am not sure, is my code is OK or is it wrong? Please review and offer suggestions on my code.
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How to optimize for larger files: MemoryError in Python while combining multiple JSON files and outputting as single CSV
I have a number of JSON files to combine and output as a single CSV (to load into R), with each JSON file at about 1.5gb. While doing a trial on 4-5 JSON files at 250MB each, I get the following ...
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String modification application
Below is working code of a semi complete program. Its purpose is to take an input string of any type and modify it based on rules defined for each type. So in this example I pass it a string in CSV ...
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Data screening using Perl
Background information
I've been asked to write a little Perl script that allows genomic data to be screened against reference files in order to determine locations of specific mutations.
The input ...
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Comparing phone numbers across CSVs Python
(continuation from Speeding up and fixing phone numbers from CSVs with Regex)
I'm pulling all of the phone numbers from all CSVs in two different directories, outputting them in a single simple ...
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Speeding up and fixing phone numbers from CSVs with Regex
I've hodgepodged together an attempt to extract all phone numbers from all CSVs in a directory, regardless of where they are and what format they're in. I want all phone numbers to be printed to a ...
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Parse Bloomberg Excel/CSV with Pandas DataFrame
I retrieved Bloomberg data using the Excel API. In the typical fashion, the first row contains tickers in every fourth column, and the second row has the labels Date, PX_LAST, [Empty Column], Date, ...
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Parsing CSV file with BufferedReader vs Scanner
I have to parse file line by line and in single line I have split by ",".
First String would be Name and Second would be count. Finaly I have to display the Key and Count
For example
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Averaging numbers from a file, obeying Single Responsibility Principle
Task:
Given comma_separated.txt file with string:
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12...,n
Calculate the average ...
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Optimizing a function to read bigger files in php
I have the following function that reads data from a csv file and it is supposed to take in data which is from a certain certain timeinterval in this case 07:59 and saves them up in another csv file. ...
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Printing out JSON data from Twitter as a CSV?
I'm extremely new to Python, and the Twitter API, but I found a example online that walked me through the process. Now that I've been playing around with it for awhile, I've begun to push the limits ...
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Reading messages with binary tree
I'm building a binary tree.
Example: key AAAA1.ETR, value 1.
I'm reading files with this structure:
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Read CSV, compute some stuff and prepare data to be sent to GNUPlot
I would really appreciate some good advice on how to refactor a small app:
It basically reads a CSV (energy/heat values?), computes some stuff, and then prepares some data which should later be sent ...
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Updating tables with bulk of data through CSV
My work is pretty simple. I have to migrate a bulk of data into the specified tables, so that the data does show up at the front-end. The data is provided through the ...
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Fastest Way to Write Multiple CSV's
I'm writing a program to process log files. Currently, I have a script that will extract the desired information from each log and put it into a list - I have about nine different lists all ...
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Cutting strings into smaller ones based on specific criteria
So, I've got this largish (for me) script, and I want to see if anybody could tell me if there are any ways to improve it, both in terms of speed, amount of code and the quality of the code. I still ...
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Knn console application; problematic implementation
I'm working on a small command line application in c# where data is read from a CSV file along with a query and KNN is calculated for the query based on the data.
My problem isn't the algorithm at ...
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Generating two .csv files from named parameters
I wrote Clojure code which takes named params and has to generate 2 .csv files as output.
Please review it.
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Speed up CSV reading code (vector of doubles)
I am trying to read a single-columned CSV of doubles into Java with a string header. It is 11 megabytes and takes over 15 minutes to read, which is clearly ...
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Calculate query coverage from BLAST output
I have a BLAST output file and want to calculate query coverage, appending the query lengths as an additional column to the output. Let's say I have
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Grouping a CSV by column
I've started writing a small CSV parser class as I needed a method to group a CSV file by a given column.
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Reading columns and rows in a .csv file
I have some data in a .csv file, which looks roughly like this:
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Reading in a file and performing string manipulation
In a question I answered I posted the following code:
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Creating a pythonic snippet to read and clean .csv files
I am trying to import a .csv file, clean the contents, and make sure all the errors are eliminated.
IO error
file format error
data error
I am using the snippet below. Could someone help me clean ...
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How to make this csv-reading PHP code more efficient?
I have the following code that reads a .csv file that than outputs the result in the form of a HTML table:
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Perl Code Improvements - reading CSV file
I am very new to Perl, but quite pleased with my short introduction to it!
So, scenario is I have a number of text files (they are reports from a financial system) stored in a directory. Each report ...
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get city and state using zip code, scrape in Python
I'm looking for any and all feedback on quality, style and efficacy of the code. If there's a simple way to get the header put in, I'd love to hear that.
The code is used to take zip codes from a csv ...
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Improve my copying of a CSV file
I need to merge some large csv files but I feel that the way I am doing it is not optmized. It gets a number of csvfiles and creates one
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CSV file cleanup
I'm fairly new to Python and am going to be parsing hundreds of thousands of names eventually. What I wanted to do was take individual CSV files, and create new CSV files with only the info I wanted. ...
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Using a .csv file to insert data into the Django model
I have a script that uses a .csv file into insert data to the Django model. Now, I wonder if there's a better way of doing this.
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Regex to parse semicolon-delimited fields is too slow
I have a file with just 3500 lines like these:
filecontent= "13P397;Fotostuff;t;IBM;IBM lalala 123|IBM lalala 1234;28.000 things;;IBMlalala123|IBMlalala1234"
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