On Friday 26 December 2008 03:24:41 mldspen...@aol.com wrote: > I don't have time to work my way through the online Python tutorial. I've > tried a couple of forums but nobody has answered my questions.
There are loads of Python tutorials on the net, some will teach you the basics in 5 minutes, others will give you a more thorough understanding in a couple of days. But it shouldn't be that hard I'd say, if you want it fast than I'd recommend this one: http://hetland.org/writing/instant-python.html > A simple > program with comments that say "here's where I read File A and define/map/ > the fields in it" would let me learn by testing and trying things out, the > same way I learned to work with the fields in the module. Here's a little example program, it's actually quite simple ;) import csv csv_reader = csv.reader(open('spam.csv')) for row in csv_reader: print row That will print all the rows in the file, if you want to extract the specific fields you could do something like this: for a, b, c in csv_reader: print a, b, c Where a, b and c are the fields (I'd recommend a more useful name though). For writing a csv the process is similar, but open it like this and use writerow: csv_writer = csv.writer(open('eggs.csv', 'w')) Hopefully that helps :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
