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[Saratoga]

Originally Posted by Tom

How many files get sent toDropBox, and howvmuch space do you need?

around 1.7 gigs

[Tom]

Thanks!

[classhandicapper]

I didn't have enough space left in my Dropbox to import it. I did look at some of the fields contained and it does have some added Class condition info that I don't get via DRF Text files that would be useful.

[Saratoga]

Originally Posted by classhandicapper

I didn't have enough space left in my Dropbox to import it. I did look at some of the fields contained and it does have some added Class condition info that I don't get via DRF Text files that would be useful.

I saw it too...

Looked incomplete to me...lots of repetitive stuff and only found top 3 horses of the fields..

I did get quite crossed eyes going thru it all

[vegasone]

Originally Posted by classhandicapper

I didn't have enough space left in my Dropbox to import it. I did look at some of the fields contained and it does have some added Class condition info that I don't get via DRF Text files that would be useful.

You can download the files to your computer first instead of your dropbox, as per previous post.

[classhandicapper]

Originally Posted by vegasone

You can download the files to your computer first instead of your dropbox, as per previous post.

Thanks

I missed that post.

[TrifectaBox]

Then sent an email asking if we are using the data to pick more winners



I'm tempted to reply, the way the data was formatted, most folks will be lucky to use it at all.

[equusvates]

As formatted, the data is meant to be parsed by a machine. Python and other programming languages have libraries that easily parse the files and archive them to a csv file or a database. I am currently using the pugixml library in c++. I presently use a python library for Equibase race changes xml file in the python and c++ versions of my program. I am switching to c++ for security reasons as python is extremely hard to secure.

[denniswilliams]

How exactly is Python 'extremely hard to secure'?

[equusvates]

Python is an interpreted at runtime language and executed as byte code by a python virtual machine. As such, a reverse engineering program can read the interpreted code in memory and reverse engineer the source code. By security, I meant, if you worked many years as I have in developing your code, you would want someone to make it their own in just a few days or weeks. As your c++, there are many obfuscation program that will put in many garbage instructions into the executable while at the same time encrypting all or critical portions of the program and or external configuration files. I have spent more than 20 years in development. It’s not perfect of course, but has many angles taken from Pizzolla, Taulbot, Byer, Sartin and from casual conversations at the track. It is by design a long shot program. It does not goes cray and grabs long shots for the sake of price. In fact, it will make some favorites that are over 2 to 1, 1 to 5 or better.

[Saratoga]

Originally Posted by equusvates

Python is an interpreted at runtime language and executed as byte code by a python virtual machine. As such, a reverse engineering program can read the interpreted code in memory and reverse engineer the source code. By security, I meant, if you worked many years as I have in developing your code, you would want someone to make it their own in just a few days or weeks. As your c++, there are many obfuscation program that will put in many garbage instructions into the executable while at the same time encrypting all or critical portions of the program and or external configuration files. I have spent more than 20 years in development. It’s not perfect of course, but has many angles taken from Pizzolla, Taulbot, Byer, Sartin and from casual conversations at the track. It is by design a long shot program. It does not goes cray and grabs long shots for the sake of price. In fact, it will make some favorites that are over 2 to 1, 1 to 5 or better.

Your posts have gone 10 stories over my head....

But I would be interested in what you get out of this , if you don't mind

thx

[vegasone]

Over complicating something really simple. Unless you are selling software, you want the quickest and easiest way to solve your problem and python fits the bill. Lots of XML parsers available in python if you are handy in Python.


The problem is that most of the people on here are not programmers and for sure aren't going to be learning C.

[TrifectaBox]

The data should have been delivered in a less obtuse form.


Clearly they intended this for practicing data crunchers , not the average player.


My guess, this is how they store it.

[denniswilliams]

Originally Posted by TrifectaBox

The data should have been delivered in a less obtuse form.


Clearly they intended this for practicing data crunchers , not the average player.


My guess, this is how they store it.

Any competent 'practicing data cruncher' has scraping skills.

Including being able to scrape/convert the EQUIBASE PDF result files. And certainly the GPS result files. All the rest are paying for data and using someone else's program to analyze it.

Why would EQUIBASE make its data FREE and easy to use? Of course, data in any format would present a challenge to those lacking basic skills.

[TrifectaBox]

Yes, well, I've been scraping internet data for 30 years so the concept is not lost on me.