Support fixed-width text files
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enhancement
help wanted
plugin
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 886
- Forks
- 137
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Some institutions release data in fixed-width text files (a lot of them uses R to parse it), like these IBGE files. It would be awesome to import these files so we can convert them to proper CSVs so more people (read as "non-R people") will be able to read them easily.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no implementation files, tests, or entry points. Start by surveying the repository’s existing import and conversion paths, then determine how fixed-width layouts would be specified and validated; done means supported example files can be imported and converted to CSV.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100