📅 2023-03-23 — Session: Enhanced Python Script for Survey Data Parsing
🕒 22:30–22:45
🏷️ Labels: Python, JSON, Data Parsing, Regular Expressions, Code Modification
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to update and optimize a Python script for parsing survey data from text files into JSON format, focusing on comprehensive data capture and correct handling of specific fields.
Key Activities
- Updated the Python code to correctly parse the ‘Value Labels’ field from survey text files, ensuring all relevant content is captured as a single string.
- Modified the script to retain all lines of each field during the conversion of text input to JSON format.
- Developed a method to process text files by grouping extracted fields and values by question numbers and handling multiple values for the same field by storing them in lists.
- Implemented specific handling for ‘Value Labels’ by concatenating values instead of appending them as a list.
- Adjusted the loop logic to ensure consecutive lines are appended to the value variable if they do not start with a new field name.
Achievements
- Successfully updated the Python script to enhance data parsing capabilities, ensuring comprehensive and accurate JSON output.
Pending Tasks
- Further testing may be required to ensure robustness across different survey formats.