Revision 3 as of 2005-12-02 16:38:21

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Intended Audience

Beginning to intermediate programmers. A basic working knowledge of Python is assumed.

Summary

This tutorial will introduce beginning to intermediate programmers to the many useful Python tools & techniques for text and data processing. Topics will include regular expressions, filtering data with generators, and parsing.

Outline

  • Common data sources needing processing:
    • log files
    • CSV
    • tabular data
    • email
    • XML
  • Tools & techniques:
    • lists & dicts
    • s.join(list) instead of accumulating
    • for line in file
    • filters, large data sources: generators
    • decorate-sort-undecorate
    • StringIO
  • Regular expressions:
    • pattern matching
    • filtering
    • substitution
    • splitting
  • Parsing:
    • s.split()
    • s.find()
    • regular expressions
    • "real" parsers
    • state machines

Trainer: David Goodger (email)

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