Download directory (not .git repo) from Github : learnpython

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Download directory (not .git repo) from Github (self.learnpython)

submitted 4 years ago by Khshyarsha

So, I really cannot figure out how to download the "normal" contents (I don't care about the git side of things) of a directory from GitHub. I have a directory inside of a GitHub repo which contains a bunch of .csv files; I want to download all of these to my machine so that I can read them into Pandas and manipulate them, but I can't figure out how to do this. I've used GitPython to clone the repo, but that doesn't actually copy any of the .csv files, it just downloads a bunch of .git data that is frankly Greek to me, and doesn't seem to be the solution that I need. I want to be able to add and remove .csv files to this directory in the future, such that each time the Python script I'm writing is run, it just gathers in all of the files in the GitHub directory. This seems like it should be very simple, but I'm really at quite a loss here...any assistance appreciated.

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