[SciPy-Dev] Arff-handling?

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 12:10 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Moy Git <moygit1729 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi folks.
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>> My team is writing code to slice and dice arff files: add/delete/update
>> columns, save arffs, join two arffs on a key, append rows, etc. If there's
>> interest in adding this functionality to SciPy's arff module please let me
>> know and I'll send a PR.
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>> (Brief description: I'll extend arffread's MetaData class and add Arff and
>> Data classes. Arff will have a convert_to_numpy method, and arffread's
>> loadarff function will just create an Arff and call its convert_to_numpy.
>> This will maintain backward-compatibility and also let us add new stuff to
>> Arff.)
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> Hi Moy, given the lack of interest and that (AFAIK) no SciPy devs are users
> of arff files, it may be better to keep the functionality in scipy.io
> simple. There's a dedicated package for arff files called liac-arff [1, 2]
> that looks pretty good and may be a better place for the more advanced
> functionality you are proposing.
>
> [1] https://github.com/renatopp/liac-arff
> [2] https://pythonhosted.org/liac-arff/

It might make sense to add a note to the scipy.io docs pointing to
this as an option for those who need something fancier, though?

-n

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