pandect package

Submodules

pandect.pandect module

pandect.pandect.expand_path(x)

Helper function to expand ~ and environment variables in paths

pandect.pandect.load(source, sep=', ', expand=True, flags=<RegexFlag.IGNORECASE: 2>, table=None)

Load dataset into pandas.DataFrame object

Uses file extension as heuristic to determine input format.

Supports: csv, tsv, xlsx, sav, dta (unreliable), sqlite3

sepstr

Separator used by csv

expandtrue

Expand ~ and environment variables in path strings

flagsre.RegexFlag

Regular expression flags for matching file name extensions

tablestr

Name of table to load (needed for some database input sources)

datapandas.DataFrame

DataFrame object

metapyreadstat.metadata_container

Metadata (empty if not provided by data source)

FileNotFoundError IOError

Loading dta files is unreliable (bug in pyreadstat, might segfault)

Incomplete list of metadata:

• column_names : list with the names of the columns

• column_labels : list with the column labels, if any

• column_names_to_labels : dict{column_names: column_labels}

• variable_value_labels : dict{variable_names: dict}

• variable_to_label : dict{variable_names: label_name}

• value_labels : dict{label_name: dict}

• variable_measure : nominal, ordinal, scale or unknown

See the pyreadstat web docs for complete spec.

Module contents

Top-level package for pandect.