Most people never have to figure out how to directly read from a disk drive, deblock the data into records ... to write an arithmetic expression parser in Python. It came out in about 100 lines ...

We can use Python’s open function to read and ... we’ll be using Pandas‘ powerful inbuilt CSV parser and some basic data processing functions to: Drop unnecessary columns.

The "horrible thing" in developer Erik Rose's talk from this year's PyCon is the Mediawiki syntax, but that's just a jumping off point for one of the best overviews of data parsing that I've run ...

Most beginning Python programmers are invited to run import ... containing the contents of a file I wanted to parse. There was no file, no filename, only the data. But my API only supported access ...