Delete committed dataset orphans (Track X)

[mmcky]

Deletes nine committed files that no lecture in this edition reads: the pandas_panel trio (countries.csv, employ.csv, realwage.csv — pandas_panel.md reads data-lectures), pandas/data/ticker_data.csv (unreferenced), pandas/data/test_pwt.csv (the copy left behind by the Track D repoint — QuantEcon/workspace-lectures#54's row for this edition), numbers.txt and us_cities.txt (written by %%file / %%writefile), and both test_table.csv copies — unlike the English repo, this edition's exercise prose links to the English repo's python_advanced_features/test_table.csv URL, so its own copies are orphans.

Translations sit outside the data-lectures audit's scanned set, so this is the translation half of the orphan sweep: the same files the English repo deletes in its PR of the same title, verified here file by file on 2026-09-01 — every lecture that uses these datasets reads them from QuantEcon/data-lectures, and the rest are written by the lectures themselves with %%file / %%writefile before being read. The translation sync is .md-only, so nothing will re-add them.

Published surface and settle. All nine serve at 200 on quantecon.github.io/lecture-python-programming.fr/ today. This repo publishes on a publish* tag and has no _build/html prune, so they clear on the settle policy — next Monday clean rebuild, then the next publish. That publish is the one QuantEcon/workspace-lectures#54 already asks for (it also refreshes the jax install cell on the rendered pages), so merging this and tagging clears both at once.

Rows for QuantEcon/workspace-lectures#40 (published URL, measured today with a 200 page control and a 404 never-existed control on the same host; expect 404 after the settle):

path	today
/_static/lecture_specific/pandas_panel/countries.csv	200, 49,605 B
/_static/lecture_specific/pandas_panel/employ.csv	200, 1,725,234 B
/_static/lecture_specific/pandas_panel/realwage.csv	200, 121,589 B
/_static/lecture_specific/pandas/data/ticker_data.csv	200, 35,905 B
/_static/lecture_specific/pandas/data/test_pwt.csv	200, 793 B
/_static/lecture_specific/python_advanced_features/numbers.txt	200, 16 B
/_static/lecture_specific/python_advanced_features/test_table.csv	200, 377,272 B
/_static/lecture_specific/python_foundations/test_table.csv	200, 377,272 B
/_static/lecture_specific/python_foundations/us_cities.txt	200, 169 B

Deletion-time reader sweep (2026-09-01). Authenticated tarball-and-grep pass over 407 repositories: all 283 QuantEcon org repos (70 private, 26 archived; numfocus, quantecon-book-dp and test-cli are empty and unfetchable) plus 130 forks of the six holding repos (2 returned 404 and are recorded as not-swept rather than clean). Matched by basename, not URL, with each hit's three preceding lines folded in because URLs get split across source lines. Controls fired in the same pass: a never-existing basename returned 0 hits and 0 copies, and both known readers were found — the English python_advanced_features.md exercise link to test_table.csv, and devopseng99/project.lecture-wasm's runtime fetch of intro's graph.txt. Result: no repository reads any path this PR deletes. Every other co-occurrence of these basenames is a %%file embed, prose, a .gitignore line, or review text; the pre-MyST master/source/… reads in old course repos have been dead since the MyST migration and are unaffected.

Part of the Track X orphan sweep, QuantEcon/workspace-lectures#57 (one PR per holding repo, identical titles). Source list: https://quantecon.github.io/data-lectures/audit.json orphans, 2026-08-31 run.

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Pull request overview

This PR removes static “lecture_specific” dataset files that are no longer referenced by the French lecture sources, either because the lectures now fetch data from QuantEcon/data-lectures URLs or because the notebooks write the needed files themselves via %%file / %%writefile.

Changes:

• Delete the pandas_panel CSV trio (countries.csv, employ.csv, realwage.csv) from lectures/_static/lecture_specific/pandas_panel/.
• Delete unreferenced pandas CSVs (ticker_data.csv, test_pwt.csv) from lectures/_static/lecture_specific/pandas/data/.
• Delete generated-or-orphan exercise data files (numbers.txt, us_cities.txt, and both test_table.csv copies) from lectures/_static/lecture_specific/.

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File	Description
lectures/_static/lecture_specific/pandas_panel/countries.csv	Removes committed dataset file now sourced elsewhere.
lectures/_static/lecture_specific/pandas_panel/employ.csv	Removes committed dataset file now sourced elsewhere.
lectures/_static/lecture_specific/pandas_panel/realwage.csv	Removes committed dataset file now sourced elsewhere.
lectures/_static/lecture_specific/pandas/data/ticker_data.csv	Removes unreferenced committed dataset file.
lectures/_static/lecture_specific/pandas/data/test_pwt.csv	Removes committed dataset file (lectures fetch it via data-lectures URL).
lectures/_static/lecture_specific/python_advanced_features/numbers.txt	Removes committed file that lectures generate via %%file before reading.
lectures/_static/lecture_specific/python_advanced_features/test_table.csv	Removes orphan committed exercise CSV (prose links to English repo copy).
lectures/_static/lecture_specific/python_foundations/test_table.csv	Removes orphan committed exercise CSV (prose links to English repo copy).
lectures/_static/lecture_specific/python_foundations/us_cities.txt	Removes committed file that lectures generate via %%writefile/%%file before reading.

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[mmcky]

Validation (2026-09-01, preview pr-70--verdant-toffee): pandas.html and pandas_panel.html → 200. Rendered pages read data-lectures everywhere the deleted files used to be: pandas.html (1 ref to data-lectures/raw/main/lectures/test_pwt.csv, 0 local), polars.html (3, 0), pandas_panel.html (3 data-lectures refs for realwage/countries/employ, 0 local); the python_advanced_features.html exercise href points at the English repo's kept test_table.csv (1) and never at a local copy (0). Build log: 0 warnings mentioning a deleted basename. Expected exception: all nine deleted paths still serve at 200 on the preview — it restored the 2026-08-20T04:21Z build-cache, built from main. (This is the stale-_build behaviour from QuantEcon/workspace-lectures#41: the preview restored the build-cache artifact built from main before this branch existed, and this repo has no jb clean . --html prune yet, so the restored copies are re-shipped. It says nothing about the PR; on the live site they clear on the settle policy recorded in the PR body.)