Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: FileTransforms
Version: 0.2.0
Summary: A library for easily transforming files
Home-page: http://github.com/kallam/FileTransforms
Author: Alex Kallam
License: MIT
Description: # FileTransforms
        
        This project started as a few basic Python functions to replace some very old Excel VBA macros that were used to reformatted client files. The original iteration had a lot of hard-coded header values, but this package can be used to generate a wide variety of outputs with relative ease.
        
        ### Converting Excel Workbooks
        
        This package originally included a function that would convert Excel files to CSVs automatically, but it was removed because it was kind of hacky and required a lot of dependencies. If you need a quick and dirty method to do this, install `csvkit` and use the following function.
        
        ``` python
        def convert_to_csv(file_path, file_type=None):
            csv_file_path = file_path + '.csv'
            file_type = '-f ' + file_type if file_type is not None else ''
            check_call('in2csv {} "{}" > "{}"'.format(file_type, file_path, csv_file_path),
                       stdout=DEVNULL, stderr=STDOUT, shell=True)
            return csv_file_path
        ```
        
        ### Warning
        Some functions in the BaseTransform class had to be heavily modified to not rely upon hard-coded header values, but they have not been thoroughly tested yet. The original code was developed over several years and had to accomodate a wide variety of wild input formats, so more major refactoring of BaseTransform is to be expected.
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
Provides-Extra: xlsx
Provides-Extra: dev
