Categorize

Small Python script to categorize data using RegEx.

Install

Simply clone this repo:

git clone [email protected]:databulle/categorize.git  

Use

You'll need:

• A file containing the rules you want to apply (see syntax below),
• A file containing the items you want to categorize (one item per line).

It's quite simple:

python categorize.py -r example-rules.txt -i example-data.csv  

Default outputs to a CSV file with semicolon separator: categorized.csv.

Command line arguments:

• -h, --help shows help message and exits
• -r RULES, --rules RULES indicates rules file (required)
• -i INPUT, --input INPUT indicates input file (required)
• -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT indicates output file (optional, default: categorized.csv)
• -s SEP, --sep SEP indicates output file CSV separator (optional, default: ; )

Rules syntax

This script uses standard Python RegEx syntax, and associates each pattern with a category name.
Each line must start with the regular expression pattern, followed by a semicolumn, and end with the category name:

REGEX;CATEGORY_NAME  

You'll find some examples in the example-rules.txt file.

Contributing

If you wish to contribute to this repository or to report an issue, please use GitLab.