Python

Are you asking how to write a module that you can import?

Yes, kinda.

Are these the same set of DB files every time? Are the columns and other configurations the same? Are you writing new python code every month?

They get updated by the accounting team each month. Some of them are csv, other come from an access database file, other from the sql server.

Some of the code need to be run each month with the updated databases, but there's a lot of ad hoc statistical studies that my boss ask for that use the same databases.

Are you using some ETL process to spit out a bunch of files that you'd like to have imported and available easily? Are the formats the same but the filenames differ?

I guess yes. And not, the accountants keep the same filenames but change the directory lmao.

I think it's the first thing you're after. There are a bunch of tutorials knocking around about this, eg,

Thanks, im checking it out.

how do I make it available for all my new python projects to use?

import sys sys.path.append('my\\modules\\directory) import my_module

I get the impression you're a data person rather than a programmer -perhaps you have a colleague who's more of the latter you can tap up for this?

You're right, I'm an actuarie. I wanted to do computer science instead of actuarial sciences, but I tough that it would be better getting an actuarial degree and then doing a masters on CS (still in planning, maybe 2026). I'm the only guy on the company who uses python and people here thinks I'm a genius because I have automated some boring things from excel.

If it is the first thing, just put the db setup code you're using in one file, call it "database.py"

database.py

# the code you commonly use, ending with
database = ...

From a second file in the same directory, write: main_program.py

from database import database
# The first "database" here is the module name.
# The second "database" is a variable you set inside that module.
# You can also write this as follows:
# import database
# ... and use `database.database` to refer to the same thing
# but that involves "stuttering" throughout your code.

# use `database` as you would before - it refers to the "database" object that was found in the "database.py" module

then run it with python main_program.py

The main thing to realise here is that there are two names involved. One's the module, the other is the variable (or function name) you set inside that module that you want to get access to.

Never heard of that, just saw a video and even if isn't exactly what I need it's looked really cool.

Thanks, I could solve it creating a file with a def get_database(name):

if name == 'database':

all the process to create the database

return database

And then df = get_database('database') execute all the processes and return it.