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As a Data Engineer, one faces the need to share files securely over the internet. An easy way of doing…
Optimized Import of Text Data for Analytics
Text data analysis is a staple use case for the Data Analytics world! There are multiple firms which enable capture…
How to copy a file, recreating the directory structure, using python?
To copy “Folder1/Folder2/file1” to “Folder3” source structure: Folder1/FolderA ………………….(not to be copied)Folder1/fileX…………………………(not to be copied)Folder1/Folder2/file1 desired destination structure: Folder3/Folder1/Folder2/file1 P.S.…
