File Parsing with Python Video Tutorial
This video series was produced in the spring of 2020, during the COVID19-pandemic, when all lectures had to be held electronically, without physical attendance. It is a tutorial, in German, for parsing text files, and basic unit testing.
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1 Intro
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of Python, and a working installation of python ≥3.6.
An overview over the topics discussed in the rest of the videos, and installation of pytest.
2 INI: First Steps
Basic setup, and our first test.
Code: inifile_1.py and inifile_test_1.py
3 INI: Sections
Parsing INI sections.
Code: inifile_2.py and inifile_test_2.py
4 INI: Variables
Parsing INI variable assignments.
Code: inifile_3.py and inifile_test_3.py
5 INI: Bugfixes and Integration Tests
Parsing difficult values, and comments.
Code: inifile_4.py and inifile_test_4.py
6 INI: Test the Tests
Tests can be wrong, too.
7 CSV: First Prototype
A simple parser for values without quotes.
Code: csvfile_1.py and csvfile_test_1.py
8 CSV: Quotes
Parsing quoted values makes everything harder.
Code: csvfile_2.py and csvfile_test_2.py
9 CSV: A Few More Features
Comments and a choice of separators.
Code: csvfile_3.py and csvfile_test_3.py
10 JSON: Keyword Parser
Parsing the simplest of JSON expressions.
Code: jsonfile_1.py and jsonfile_test_1.py
11 JSON: Strings
Parsing JSON strings is not as simple as it seems.
Code: jsonfile_2.py and jsonfile_test_2.py
12 JSON: Numbers
Numbers in JSON.
Code: jsonfile_3.py and jsonfile_test_3.py
13 JSON: Data Structures
The rest of JSON: Objects and Arrays.
Code: jsonfile_4.py and jsonfile_test_4.py
14 Regular Expressions 1
How to parse parts of INI files with regular expressions.
Code: inifile_regex.py
15 Regular Expressions 2
How to parse parts of JSON files with regular expressions.
Code: jsonfile_regex.py
16 Wrapup
A summary of the topics discussed.
