On Nov 5, 2:29 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > So you have a classic (especially for COBOL and older FORTRAN) fixed > field record layout, no? > > I presume the entire file is of a single layout? That would mean > only one splitting format is needed... > [snip] > > Note that all fields are still in character format. And has been > noted, I'm sure, if you try to turn the third field into an integer, you > may have problems, depending upon how you do the conversion -- leading 0 > implies octal if it were a literal, though it seems int() handles it > correctly (Python 2.5)
from help(int) | ... If base is zero, the proper base is guessed based on the | string content. ... int(x) will always convert x in base 10 int(x, 0) will convert based on literal int notation, i.e. the prefix '0x' is base 16 (hex), prefix '0' is base 8 (octal), everything else is base 10. int(x, n) will convert on base n, where 2 <= n <= 36 if you're still in doubt, just pass the base explicitly to the int: int(x, 10) (superfluous though) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
