Enhanced Python Script for Dynamic Module Management

📅 2023-07-25 — Session: Enhanced Python Script for Dynamic Module Management

🕒 20:25–21:30
🏷️ Labels: Python, Module Management, File Handling, Jupyter Notebooks, Geospatial Data
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to enhance Python scripts by implementing dynamic module management and efficient file handling techniques.

Key Activities

• Implemented automatic installation of missing Python modules using try/except blocks to handle ModuleNotFoundError, ensuring necessary packages are available.
• Dynamically installed ‘pyunpack’ and ‘patool’ packages if initial imports failed, managing dependencies effectively.
• Utilized conditional statements to check for extraction directory existence, optimizing file handling processes.
• Corrected path formation in Python scripts for accurate data extraction from URLs, emphasizing the use of relative paths.
• Addressed directory name discrepancies in Python code, ensuring exact folder name matching for directory existence checks.
• Interpreted and analyzed Jupyter notebooks related to geospatial data processing, including downloading and manipulating census geometries using geopandas.

Achievements

• Successfully implemented dynamic module management and improved file handling in Python scripts.
• Enhanced understanding of Jupyter notebooks for geospatial data analysis, detailing steps for processing census geometries.

Pending Tasks

• Further testing and validation of the implemented Python scripts in different environments to ensure robustness.
• Exploration of additional geospatial data processing techniques in Jupyter notebooks.