Hello, I'm a newbie to Python & wondering someone can help me with this...
I have this code: -------------------------- #! /usr/bin/python import sys month ={'JAN':1,'FEB':2,'MAR':3,'APR':4,'MAY':5,'JUN':6,'JUL':7,'AUG': 8,'SEP':9,'OCT':10,'NOV':11,'DEC':12} infile=file('TVA-0316','r') outfile=file('tmp.out','w') for line in infile: item = line.split(',') dob = item[6].split('/') dob = dob[2]+'-'+str(month[dob[1]])+'-'+dob[0] lbdt = item[8].split('/') lbdt = lbdt[2]+'-'+str(month[lbdt[1]])+'-'+lbdt[0] lbrc = item[10].split('/') lbrc = lbrc[2]+'-'+str(month[lbrc[1]])+'-'+lbrc[0] lbrp = item[14].split('/') lbrp = lbrp[2]+'-'+str(month[lbrp[1]])+'-'+lbrp[0] item[6] = dob item[8] = lbdt item[10]=lbrc item[14]=lbrp list = ','.join(item) outfile.writelines(list) infile.close outfile.close ----------------------------- And the data file(TVA-0316) looks like this: ----------------------------- 06-0588,03,701,03701,0000046613,JJB,05/MAR/1950,M,20/NOV/2006,08:50,21/ NOV/2006,V1,,,21/NOV/2006,AST,19,U/L,5,40,, 06-0588,03,701,03701,0000046613,JJB,05/MAR/1950,M,20/NOV/2006,08:50,21/ NOV/2006,V1,,,21/NOV/2006,GGT,34,U/L,11,32,h, 06-0588,03,701,03701,0000046613,JJB,05/MAR/1950,M,20/NOV/2006,08:50,21/ NOV/2006,V1,,,21/NOV/2006,ALT,31,U/L,5,29,h, 06-0588,03,701,03701,0000046613,JJB,05/MAR/1950,M,20/NOV/2006,08:50,21/ NOV/2006,V1,,,21/NOV/2006,ALKP,61,U/L,40,135,, ----------------------------- Basically I'm reading in each line and converting all date fields (05/ MAR/1950) to different format (1950-03-05) in order to load into MySQL table. I have two issues: 1. the outfile doesn't complete with no error message. when I check the last line in the python interpreter, it has read and processed the last line, but the output file stopped before. 2. Is this the best way to do this in Python? 3. (Out of scope) is there a way to load this CSV file directly into MySQL data field without converting the format? Thank you. James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list