Meeting notes

meetingnotes.md

@@ -74,4 +74,26 @@ Ray, Sam, and Franco agreed that `populate()` was getting too large and that it
 
 F showed R and S a little bit of SAS's ability to run python through the command prompt. F said that Mpropulator's next feature should be to support this by creating a function (or modifying `populate()`) that writes tables without a config file so that SAS programmers can use it more easily. S noted that another feature should be reading directly from SAS datasets and writing to Word documents.
 
-Also, Ray needs to document `col_to_number`.
+Also, Ray needs to document `col_to_number`.
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+## 11/11/2015 ##
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+Franco used `split` instead of `str.split` for performance reasons and `map` instead of a `for` loop so that the code would take advantage of C.
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+Check if skiprows is list using an assert.
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+Is there a path extractor function so that we can avoid using franco's sepPath function?
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+Look into pandas for way to deal with missing values
+Also do aprseConfig['skipcols'] = map(helpers.col_to_number)
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+Check that each element in skipcols is a letter
+Convert cols in skipcols to numbers where we convert skiprows
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+Ray will write tests for populate, write_tabs, helpers
+F will write tests for readConfig, __init__
+S will test validations
+
+Create bad_configX.csv with different types of errors
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+Sam can look into concatenating errors into one big thing.