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-**Author**: Qian Fu |br|
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 *PyHelpers* is an open-source Python package designed as a lite tool kit for facilitating data (pre)processing tasks. It provides a miscellaneous collection of easy-to-use Python functions/classes that can help with day-to-day reading/writing of file-like objects, manipulation of various types of data (e.g. geographical data and textual data) and communication with a SQL database.
 
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