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April 8, 2014 20:03
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Converts USHCN daily temperature data to a CSV with a row per year and date's as columns
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| #!/usr/local/bin/python | |
| import csv | |
| def date_to_winter(): | |
| f = csv.reader(open('vt-temp.csv', 'rU')) | |
| dates = [l for l in f] | |
| del dates[0:2] | |
| date_row = [] | |
| all_dates = [] | |
| header_row = ['year'] | |
| for date in dates[:365]: | |
| if date[0] == '1': | |
| header_row.append(date[0]) | |
| else: | |
| header_row.append(0) | |
| header_row[-1] = '1' | |
| all_dates.append(header_row) | |
| for date in dates: | |
| if date[0] == '29' and date[2] == '2': | |
| continue | |
| if date[0] == '1' and date[2] == '1': | |
| all_dates.append(date_row) | |
| if date[4][-1] == '0': | |
| date_row = [date[4]] | |
| else: | |
| date_row = [''] | |
| try: | |
| date_row.append(int(date[5])) | |
| except ValueError: | |
| date_row.append(date_row[-1]) | |
| # Gets rid of incomplete years | |
| list_to_write = [] | |
| for year in all_dates: | |
| if len(year) < 365: | |
| continue | |
| else: | |
| list_to_write.append(year) | |
| writer = csv.writer(open('winters.csv', 'w')) | |
| writer.writerows(list_to_write) | |
| date_to_winter() |
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