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The basic idea of what I was discussing with Jon.

Reading .csv files into tablib Dataset() objects

To import data from a CSV file with tablib 0.9.2, all you have to do is read in the csv file as a string. If there is any extra white space, the built-in string.replace() method can take care of it. However, note that multi-word items will lose their white space. Below is the code I typed into bpython:

UPDATE: use re.sub(r'\s+,', '', f) to properly remove trailing white space in food.csv

And here is food.csv:

#python #tablib #csv

Reduce the amount of C-x C-o that needs to be done; works with snipMate triggers.

Found via this reddit thread.

#python #google

Looks like a much better alternative to tabular.

import this

#python

Python rewrite of docco.

#literate programming #python #markdown

Python dynamic HTML...

See also Vim Dark Corners.

You can practice on this:

#regex #programming

And look at this article on the subprocess module.

#python #programming

Very similar to the 10th Doctor's glasses.

About that last quote on economics...

I am quite perturbed by that last quote from the Harvard professor Nolan Miller. To me it nicely encapsulates all the problems with economics--it shoehorns data into the model instead of fixing the model. They treat their well established works as Scripture. When these lead to errors, they ignore them or create fudge functions. This is all well and good as far as engineering is concerned where you are more concern about the controlled modification of reality than accurate description of real processes, but for economists I can only attribute it to dogmatism.

#economics

Recall that the goal of economic theory is to account for behavior based on the assumption that actors have stable preferences, attempt to do as well as possible given those preferences and the constraints placed on their resources, and that changes in behavior are due to changes in these constraints.

Nolan H. Miller, Notes on Microeconomic Theory

#economics

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