Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: swiss
Version: 0.2
Summary: Swiss Army Knife for Data Work
Home-page: http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/swiss/
Author: Open Knowledge Foundation
Author-email: info@okfn.org
License: MIT
Download-URL: http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/swiss/
Description: Swiss Army Knife for Data Work
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        The swiss package provides various utilities for working with data:
        
        * Url caching and scraping
        
        * cache module
        
        * Processing and transforming tabular data to and from various formats.
        
        * tabular module
        
        * Cleaning up and parsing data.
        
        * misc and date modules
        
        CHANGELOG
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        v0.2 2009-10-23
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        * Extensive refactoring of tabular module/package
        * Standardized interface with BaseReader and BaseWriter
        * JsonReader and JsonWriter providing json reading and writing
        * TxtWriter to support writing to plain text
        * Improvements to date parsing (support for circa, 'c.', etc)
        * New id module to do 'compression' of uuids using 32 and 64 bit encoding
        
        
        v0.1 2009-06-03
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        * Bring together existing code (from last 2+ years) into new 'swiss' package
        * Url caching and scraping
        * Tabular data handling including csv reader/writer, xls reader, latex writer
        and associated utilities (such as pivot_table)
        * Cleaning and parsing data especially dates (misc and date modules)
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Environment :: Console
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
