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Version: 0.5.4

Renaming columns

Renaming columns by replacing the special characters

In the example below, we create a dummy source with special characters in the name. We then write a function that we intend to apply to the resource to modify its output (i.e. replacing the German umlaut): replace_umlauts_in_dict_keys.

import dlt

# create a dummy source with umlauts (special characters) in key names (um)
@dlt.source
def dummy_source(prefix: str = None):
@dlt.resource
def dummy_data():
for _ in range(100):
yield {f'Objekt_{_}': {'Größe': _, 'Äquivalenzprüfung': True}}
return dummy_data(),

def replace_umlauts_in_dict_keys(d):
"""
Replaces umlauts in dictionary keys with standard characters.
"""
umlaut_map = {'ä': 'ae', 'ö': 'oe', 'ü': 'ue', 'ß': 'ss', 'Ä': 'Ae', 'Ö': 'Oe', 'Ü': 'Ue'}
result = {}
for k, v in d.items():
new_key = ''.join(umlaut_map.get(c, c) for c in k)
if isinstance(v, dict):
result[new_key] = replace_umlauts_in_dict_keys(v)
else:
result[new_key] = v
return result

# We can add the map function to the resource

# 1. Create an instance of the source so you can edit it.
data_source = dummy_source()

# 2. Modify this source instance's resource
data_resource = data_source.dummy_data().add_map(replace_umlauts_in_dict_keys)

# 3. Inspect your result
for row in data_resource:
print(row)

# {'Objekt_0': {'Groesse': 0, 'Aequivalenzpruefung': True}}
# ...

This demo works on codespaces. Codespaces is a development environment available for free to anyone with a Github account. You'll be asked to fork the demo repository and from there the README guides you with further steps.
The demo uses the Continue VSCode extension.

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