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csv-metadata-quality/fix.py
Alan Orth ef5b8f7244
fix.py: Massive improvements
Use Python's str.strip() instead of kludgy regular expressions and
use split/join to handle multi-value fields more cleanly.
2019-07-26 19:31:55 +03:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
import pandas as pd
def fix_whitespace(field):
"""Fix whitespace issues.
Return string with leading, trailing, and consecutive whitespace trimmed.
"""
import re
# Skip fields with missing values
if pd.isna(field):
return
# Initialize an empty list to hold the cleaned values
values = list()
# Try to split multi-value field on "||" separator
for value in field.split('||'):
# Strip leading and trailing whitespace
value = value.strip()
# Replace excessive whitespace (>2) with one space
pattern = re.compile(r'\s{2,}')
match = re.findall(pattern, value)
if len(match) > 0:
print('DEBUG: Excessive whitespace')
value = re.sub(pattern, ' ', value)
# Save cleaned value
values.append(value)
# Create a new field consisting of all values joined with "||"
new_field = '||'.join(values)
return new_field
# Read all fields as strings so dates don't get converted from 1998 to 1998.0
#df = pd.read_csv('/home/aorth/Downloads/2019-07-26-Bioversity-Migration.csv', dtype=str)
#df = pd.read_csv('/tmp/quality.csv', dtype=str)
df = pd.read_csv('/tmp/omg.csv', dtype=str)
# Fix whitespace in all columns
for column in df.columns.values.tolist():
print(f'DEBUG: {column}')
df[column] = df[column].apply(fix_whitespace)
# Write
df.to_csv('/tmp/omg.fixed.csv', index=False)