Enhanced file search techniques and TimePeriod calculation

📅 2023-03-27 — Session: Enhanced file search techniques and TimePeriod calculation

🕒 06:25–06:40
🏷️ Labels: Command Line, File Search, Timeperiod, Pandas, Grep
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal: The session aimed to enhance file search techniques using command line tools and improve the calculation of the ‘TimePeriod’ column in a DataFrame.

Key Activities:

• Explored the use of find and grep commands to locate files with specific substrings in their names.
• Demonstrated the use of grep for searching function definitions and specific file types, including .ipynb and .py files, with extended regular expressions.
• Compared two code versions for computing the TimePeriod column, analyzing different methods for calculating Period and TimePeriod columns.
• Provided a modified code snippet for the ‘TimePeriod’ calculation, retaining an alternative method for min/max year computation.

Achievements:

• Successfully demonstrated advanced file search techniques using command line tools.
• Clarified differences in code versions for TimePeriod calculation and provided an improved method.

Pending Tasks:

• Further testing of the modified TimePeriod calculation method to ensure accuracy and efficiency.