A Python code

[wiretowire68]

I was given a python code for inserting brisnet past performance into google sheets without doing manually. I am having issues understanding how it works, any programmers willing to help.

[headhawg]

To understand the code you need to learn Python. If you just want it to work then you need to convert the code into an executable file. Google "auto-py-to-exe" or "PyInstaller".

[wiretowire68]

well the code gets inserted into command prompt and to insert into google sheets, the pdf brisnet file has been saved as a csv file.

[headhawg]

From your posts, I am not clear as to what the exact problem is. Perhaps someone else can make sense of it.

[ranchwest]

Originally Posted by headhawg

From your posts, I am not clear as to what the exact problem is. Perhaps someone else can make sense of it.

I don't understand how the pdf got to be a csv.

[fast4522]

Originally Posted by wiretowire68

I was given a python code for inserting brisnet past performance into google sheets without doing manually. I am having issues understanding how it works, any programmers willing to help.

Is it a custom program that a engineer gave you?

[headhawg]

Originally Posted by ranchwest

I don't understand how the pdf got to be a csv.

In 2019 a guy wrote a parser for Equibase charts. Apparently it worked too well as Equibase sent him a cease-and-desist order. They even made a change to the pdf files but he made changes to the code to get around the change. I had the parser at one time but not the version that had the fix for whatever changes Equibase made. I can't seem to find the thread in which this was discussed. Maybe it was deleted, I don't remember. Bottom line is that it's possible to do, but requires some software tools and excellent coding skills to pull it off.

Maybe @w2w has some kind of connection. He did write one time that he knew a programmer.

[Dave Schwartz]

Originally Posted by ranchwest

I don't understand how the pdf got to be a csv.

It sounds like the pdf is converted to a CSV which can then be imported into something else.

[ranchwest]

Originally Posted by headhawg

In 2019 a guy wrote a parser for Equibase charts. Apparently it worked too well as Equibase sent him a cease-and-desist order. They even made a change to the pdf files but he made changes to the code to get around the change. I had the parser at one time but not the version that had the fix for whatever changes Equibase made. I can't seem to find the thread in which this was discussed. Maybe it was deleted, I don't remember. Bottom line is that it's possible to do, but requires some software tools and excellent coding skills to pull it off.

Maybe @w2w has some kind of connection. He did write one time that he knew a programmer.

I guess I shouldn't assume how much time someone is willing to waste.

[headhawg]

I don't have the skills, patience, or desire to take on a pdf-to-csv project. And I certainly wouldn't do it out of the kindness of my heart either.

If someone is interested in the tools used and the basic process of how to do the conversion here are links to the chart-parser programmer's page and also to an article outlining the story between the coder and Equibase.

Parsing pdf documents

Cease and Desist

[fast4522]

Originally Posted by headhawg

I don't have the skills, patience, or desire to take on a pdf-to-csv project. And I certainly wouldn't do it out of the kindness of my heart either.

If someone is interested in the tools used and the basic process of how to do the conversion here are links to the chart-parser programmer's page and also to an article outlining the story between the coder and Equibase.

Parsing pdf documents

Cease and Desist

Certainly not on what someone thinks might help them get winners, what the current value in a race is with a selection is more important. Yes I do homework the evening before so anything and everything is ready in a go bag should I decide to go to the casino. Nothing is more important than skipping the right races because of lack of value. How you get there is on you, if you can read the form like a pro software can help spotting value or lack of it. The game is to find weakness and exploit it.

[Dave Schwartz]

Originally Posted by headhawg

I don't have the skills, patience, or desire to take on a pdf-to-csv project. And I certainly wouldn't do it out of the kindness of my heart either.

If someone is interested in the tools used and the basic process of how to do the conversion here are links to the chart-parser programmer's page and also to an article outlining the story between the coder and Equibase.

Parsing pdf documents

Cease and Desist

Great articles.

Amazing code, too.