This was an early project of mine at Sunbury Textile Mills. Prior to my hire they had commissioned a piece of software to take the xml output of the weaving CAD software used by the tech designers and insert the style data into the relevant fields in the AS400 database. When it worked, it sped up the trialing/product development process greatly.

All we had was a single binary executable that relied on a very specific and outdated Windows environment to run. I took it upon myself to re-implement this in python.

Unit Tests

I've included the unit tests file I used to make sure I didn't break stuff in my large suite of customer purchase order/invoice interfaces. Most of the tests revolve around the functions used to translate what a customer called a given item into what we called it and vice versa.

mf_810.py

Maharam Fabrics 810. An '810' document in EDI lingo is an electronic copy of one or many Invoices. This script extracts the data for unprocessed invoices and builds an XML document to a spec provided by the customer. This file was later dispatched to the customer automatically via FTP.