#1 2025-02-19 18:33:11

Colonel Panic

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Registered: 2018-11-13

Posts: 1,429

CSV reader and processor?

Hi there. I've been looking for a workable replacement for Portabase, a flat file database program which has not been updated for some time, and someone on the antiX forum suggested VisiData, a dataset reader which is based on Python and will read .CSV, Excel and other files.

I've tried it and although it doesn't seem to do everything that Portabase did, it's very usable and simple to set up and operate.

Here's a link;

https://www.visidata.org/

What do others think? Would this be a worthy addition to Carbon?

Last edited by Colonel Panic (2025-02-19 19:30:46)

grubernd

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From: Graz, AT

Registered: 2020-01-04

Posts: 48

Re: CSV reader and processor?

These large python toolboxes usually drag in a lot of dependencies. A LOT. And VisiData seems to be no different. The 'requirements.txt' file is 60 lines of code and a quick glance reveiled some heavy cascading packages in there. So .. from my side a "please just don't".

Managing python environments for data science is already hard enough even if you know how to use env, mamba, conda and friends.

If you find a VisiData clone written in Go, coming as a single, static, independent binary: I'm in.