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The Best of the Best Practices (BOBP) Guide for Python

A "Best of the Best Practices" (BOBP) guide to developing in Python.

In General

Values

• "Build tools for others that you want to be built for you." - Kenneth Reitz
• "Simplicity is alway better than functionality." - Pieter Hintjens

hunterowens

import pymssql
import pandas as pd

## instance a python db connection object- same form as psycopg2/python-mysql drivers also
conn = pymssql.connect(server="172.0.0.1", user="howens",password="some_fake_password", port=63642)  # You can lookup the port number inside SQL server. 

## Hey Look, college data
stmt = "SELECT * FROM AlumniMirror..someTable"
# Excute Query here
df = pd.read_sql(stmt,conn)

vdavez

#!/usr/bin/env python

import zipfile
import string
from lxml import etree

def read_docx(filepath):
    # todo: Add test to make sure it's a docx
    zfile = zipfile.ZipFile(filepath)
    # return the xml