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Utility to ease reading data from tabular data files

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Tab Import
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Tab Import is a Python utility to ease imports of tabular data from CSV, ODF,
XLS or XLSX files.

Some formats require an external Python library:

* ODF: ooolib
* XLS/XLSX: xlrd

This library is meant to be used inside a Django project context.

Usage::

#!/usr/bin/env python

import tabimport

smart_file = tabimport.FileFactory(file_path)
for data_line in smart_file:
do_something_with(data_line['header'])

Import helper
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To use the Django import helper in your Django project, follow the steps below.

1. Add 'tabimport' into your INSTALLED_APPS setting.

2. Include the urls of tabimport into your urls::

url(r'^data-import/', include('tabimport.urls')),

3. In any of your models for which you'd like to enable data import, set a
class variable like this: ``support_tabimport = True``.

4. You can then link to the tabimport utility from one of your templates by
reversing a url with ``tabimport``::

<a href="{% url 'tabimport' %}">Import utility</a>

Alternatively, your models can include a class method which will receive the
imported data as a dictionary just before they are used to create a new
instance. This allows you to handle special cases in imported data::

@classmethod
def prepare_import(cls, values):
return values

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