A python script that automates CSV file imports to a postgres database

By: Nate from StrataScratch ([email protected])

Dec 3, 2020

Here are the video tutorials showing you how to build the entire python script

• Part 1: Building the Functionality
• Part 2: Automating the Script
• Part 3: Reusing & Scaling the Functions By Applying Software Development Fundamentals

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This script will automatically import CSV files to your postgres database. Just place the CSV files in the same directory as the notebook and run the notebook. The notebook will automatically clean the file name and column headers, create the db table, and copy the file over to the database. The table names are the same names as the file names. However, all upper case characters are changed to lower case, spaces are converted to underscores, and all symbols are removed.

Importing CSV files to a database is a common task needed for data science and analytics and it can be done completely with python using pandas dataframes, numpy, os library, and the posgres database wrapper psycopg2.

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