Just a few notes: 1) get_countries_list
What is the purpose of that function? Besides a few errors (an argument named list, no value returned), it seems you just want to remove duplicates from a list called countries. You can do that transforming the list to a 'set'. new_countries = list( set(countries) ) 2) I would suggest using countries.sort(...) or sorted(countries,...), specifying cmp or key options too sort by region instead. 3) Instead of doing this: for country in unique_countries: matrix.write(n,1, country) n = n+1 Do something like for i, cou in enumerate(unique_countries): matrix.write(1+i, 1, cou) (so you dont need to increment the 'i' variable manually) On Nov 16, 2007 2:13 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm analyzing some data that has a lot of country data. What I need > to do is sort through this data and output it into an excel doc with > summary information. The countries, though, need to be sorted by > region, but the way I thought I could do it isn't quite working out. > So far I can only successfully get the data alphabetically. > > Any ideas? > > import xlrd > import pyExcelerator > > def get_countries_list(list): > countries_list=[] > for country in countries: > if country not in countries_list: > countries_list.append(country) > > EU = ["Austria","Belgium", "Cyprus","Czech Republic", > "Denmark","Estonia", "Finland"] > NA = ["Canada", "United States"] > AP = ["Australia", "China", "Hong Kong", "India", "Indonesia", > "Japan"] > Regions_tot = {'European Union':EU, 'North America':NA, 'Asia > Pacific':AP,} > > path_file = "c:\\1\country_data.xls" > book = xlrd.open_workbook(path_file) > Counts = book.sheet_by_index(1) > countries= Counts.col_values(0,start_rowx=1, end_rowx=None) > > get_countries_list(countries) > > wb=pyExcelerator.Workbook() > matrix = wb.add_sheet("matrix") > > n=1 > for country in unique_countries: > matrix.write(n,1, country) > n = n+1 > > wb.save('c:\\1\\matrix.xls') > > > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list