/hdx-python-utilities

A range of helpful utilities for Python developers including streaming tabular data, date parsing, JSON and YAML handling, dictionary and list utilities

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The HDX Python Utilities Library provides a range of helpful utilities for Python developers. Note that these are not specific to HDX.

  1. Easy downloading of files with support for authentication, streaming and hashing
  2. Retrieval of data from url with saving to file or from data previously saved
  3. Date parsing utilities
  4. Loading and saving JSON and YAML (inc. with OrderedDict)
  5. Dictionary and list utilities
  6. HTML utilities (inc. BeautifulSoup helper)
  7. Compare files (eg. for testing)
  8. Simple emailing
  9. Easy logging setup and error logging
  10. Path utilities
  11. Text processing
  12. Encoding utilities
  13. Check valid UUID
  14. Easy building and packaging

For more information, please read the documentation.

This library is part of the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) project. If you have humanitarian related data, please upload your datasets to HDX.