Find distance between two zipcodes, dump the result in an excel file

I recently wrote a piece of software for a friend working on a project, you can find it on github here. The following is from the README.md:


zipcode-distance-excel

This is a command line utility to automatically calculate the distance between two zipcodes and then put the results in an excel (.xlsx) file. It works for US postal codes only.

It was developed to help a colleague and is very application-specific.

Prerequisites

Downloading is easy git, which is already on most systems, on ubuntu use:

sudo apt-get install git

For everyone else:

Installing

A step by step series of examples that tell you have to get a development env running

Say what the step will be

git clone https://github.com/esologic/zipcode-distance-excel
cd zipcode-distance-excel
python3 setup.py install

Usage

in a directory with the .xlsx file that you want to modify, run:

python3 zde.py

The program skips the first row in the spreadsheet to avoid headers.

Example Usage

Before:

Before

Terminal output:

Which file would you like to modify?
[0] - International Addresses.xlsx
[1] - testbook.xlsx
File Number: 1
You've selected [testbook.xlsx] to edit.
Which sheet would you like to modify?
[0] - Sheet1
[1] - Sheet2
[2] - Sheet3
Sheet Number: 0
You've selected [Sheet1] to edit.
Which column to read? (ie. A, B, AA): A
Which column to write result? (ie. A, B, AA): B
Point A Zipcode? 02114
Job Complete. 10 modifications made.

After:

After

Authors

  • Devon Braysite
  • Miranda Lawellsite

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

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