ipumspy.ddi.FileDescription¶

class ipumspy.ddi.FileDescription(filename, description, structure, encoding, format, place)[source]¶

In the IPUMS DDI, the file has its own particular description. Extract that from the XML.

Attributes

`filename`	IPUMS extract ddi file name
`description`	IPUMS ddi file description
`structure`	IPUMS extract data file structure.
`encoding`	IPUMS file encoding scheme
`format`	IPUMS extract data file format
`place`	IPUMS physical address

Methods

`__init__`
`read`	Read a FileDescription from the parsed XML