Python is the ideal language to do data processing, and it’s one of the reasons it’s used so much for data science. Python supports data formats like CSV, JSON, and XML out of the box. However, there are also many external libraries on PyPI to aid you with processing data, like PyYAML.
Python data processing topics
In this section, we’ll dive into processing data of all kinds. For now, I’ve only touched on the subject of JSON and YAML, but there are more topics in the proverbial pipeline:
- Processing plain text files
- Working with JSON
- Reading and writing YAML in Python
- Processing CSV data
- Reading Excel data with Python
- Processing PDF files
