On Dec 29, 3:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Patrick, > > in your first posting you are writing "... I'm trying to learn how to > make pivot tables from some excel sheets...". Can you be more specific > please? AFIK Excel offers very good support for pivot tables. So why > to read tabular data from the Excel sheet and than transform it to > pivot tabel in Python? > > Petr
Yes, I realize Excel has excellent support for pivot tables. However, I hate how Excel does it and, for my particular excel files, I need them to be formated in an automated way because I will have a number of them over time and I'd prefer just to have python do it in a flash than to do it every time with Excel. >It's about time you got a *concrete* idea of how something works. Absolutely right. I tend to take on ideas that I'm not ready for, in the sense that I only started using Python some months ago for some basic tasks and now I'm trying on some more complicated ones. With time, though, I will get a concrete idea of what python.exe does, but, for someone who studied art history and not comp sci, I'm doing my best to get a handle on all of it. I think a pad of paper might be a good way to visualize it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
