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by SonicScrub 1767 days ago
The process I had to deal with was filling out spreadsheets with data from a python-driven 3D inspection program that exported out data files in CSV format. Needless to say, these errors were inevitable for exactly the reasons you've stated. Why we didn't bypass the large, poorly formatted cumbersome spreadsheets and just directly export data via pandas? All the inspection was done by Python anyways. You tell me! Also, it did not help that the spreadsheets were not created by me, or any colleagues in my department.

God I hated working in old-school engineering/manufacturing. "That's not how we do things" is the answer to everything. I