today I have mostly been attempting to remember how to python

[kaberett]

Voilà. It is hacky as fuck! It also took me significantly less time to get it to this point than it would have to run through even one of the GEOROC precompiled files manually.

There is still a lot of (necessarily) manual work for me to do with actually getting useful information out, and there are A Lot of things I could plausibly do to improve this code -- including, for instance, setting myself up to deal with all the vast range of different fucking delimiters GEOROC uses -- but hey! I did the thing! and it took me one (1) day to get from "okay I've set up a file with some comments about the eventual structure" to "it more-or-less works"!

it is indeed python2.7 and i am not fixing that tonight.

Comments

[kaberett]

I have been putting off slogging through remembering enough python (and looking up enough regex) to write this script since before I handed in the thesis. I am pretty pleased with myself for progress!

[vass]

You were a snake wrangler long before the viva.

[kaberett]

:D <3

[alexwlchan]

Woohoo useful code! Yay for doing the thing.

intereString. Alex. Alex.

Only one note for tonight: because you reassign cleanedRefs for every value of “filename in files”, I think refs-out.csv will only contain references for the last file you look at. That seems unlikely to be the intended behaviour?

[kaberett]

I WAS HAVING AN EXTENDED MOMENT OKAY

(annoyingly I kept trying to type it interestRing, which is less funny)

refs-out will indeed only contain references for last file I looked at; "unfucking the file names so they actually reflect the input file names" is on the list of things to do After I Have Slept...

[brainwane]

Yay congrats!

[silveradept]

Congratulations on getting the thing done! Revisions are a better position to work from than doing the initial work of building the thing.