Changeset 5243 for main/waeup.sirp/branches/ulif-fasttables/src/waeup/sirp/jambtables/README.txt

Timestamp:

27 Jun 2010, 08:51:55 (14 years ago)

Author:

uli

Message:

Update examples.

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• main/waeup.sirp/branches/ulif-fasttables/src/waeup/sirp/jambtables/README.txt (modified) (3 diffs)

main/waeup.sirp/branches/ulif-fasttables/src/waeup/sirp/jambtables/README.txt

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 JAMB data is stored in a JAMBDataTable.
+
+Creating JAMB Tables
+====================
 
 We can import JAMB registration data from a regular CSV file:
@@ -26 +29 @@
     >>> len(list(table))
     3
+
+Accessing JAMB Data
+===================
+
+Getting Entries
+---------------
 
 We can get the entries from the table as an iterator:
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      {...}]
 
+Also a :meth:`keys` and :meth:`items` method are available. They both
+return an iterator.
+
+The :meth:`keys` method in action:
+
+     >>> pprint(list(table.keys()))
+     [u'91100546DD', u'91111834CC', u'91109351AC']
+
+The :meth:`items` method in action:
+
+     >>> pprint(list(table.items()))
+     [(u'91100546DD',
+      {'course1': u'BSCPOL',
+       'date_of_birth': datetime.date(1982, 5, 25),
+       'entry_session': '9',
+       'firstname': u'MOSES',
+       'fst_sit_fname': u'ISUOSUO MOSES ODOMERO',
+       'jamb_lga': u'ISO-S',
+       'jamb_state': u'DEL',
+       'lastname': u'ISUOSUO',
+       'middlenames': u'ODOMERO',
+       'reg_no': u'91100546DD',
+       'screening_date': u'2009/09/25 09:00:00 GMT+1',
+       'screening_type': u'pde',
+       'screening_venue': u'REPRINT SLIP AS FROM WED 23/09/2009',
+       'sex': u'M'}),
+     (u'91111834CC',
+      {...}),
+     (u'91109351AC',
+      {...})]
+
+A ``values()``-like behaviour cen be archieved by simply using the
+iterator.
+
+Getting JAMB Table Meta Data
+----------------------------
+
 We can also get a datetime stamp, that tells, when the table was
 imported. This could help with maintaining old tables: