📅 2023-03-23 — Session: Developed Python scripts for file manipulation and JSON parsing
🕒 21:45–22:20
🏷️ Labels: Python, File Handling, JSON, Regex
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to enhance file manipulation techniques in Python, focusing on line removal, string extraction, and data parsing into JSON format.
Key Activities
- Troubleshooting Line Removal: Debugged a Python function for removing specific lines from a file, enhancing it with print statements for better error tracking.
- String Extraction: Implemented a method to extract lines between specified strings in a file, including error handling for missing strings.
- Data Parsing to JSON: Developed a script to parse codebook information using regular expressions and convert it into JSON format.
- Regex Modifications: Adjusted regular expressions for specific codebook formats and explored alternative string manipulation techniques.
- Special Character Removal: Utilized the
replace()method to remove special characters from text files. - File Overwriting: Demonstrated overwriting file content post-special character removal.
- Regex for File Filtering: Modified regex patterns to filter lines starting with a digit followed by an equal sign.
- Field Extraction to JSON: Created a script to extract fields from text files and output them as JSON using regex.
Achievements
Successfully developed and tested multiple Python scripts for file manipulation and data processing, improving error handling and regex usage.
Pending Tasks
- Further optimization of regex patterns for more complex file formats.
- Integration of these scripts into a larger data processing pipeline.