I am in the process of learning python. I have bought Learning Python by Mark Lutz, printed a copy of Dive into Python and various other books and looked at several tutorials. I have started a stupid little project in python and things are proceeding well. I am an old time cobol programmer from the IBM 360/370 eria and this ingrained idea of file processing using file definition (FD's) I believe is causing me problems because I think python requires a different way of looking at datafiles and I haven't really gotten my brain around it yet. I would like to create a small sequential file, processing at first to store a group id, name, amount, and date which I can add to delete from and update. Could someone point me to some code that would show me how this is done in python. Eventually, I intend to expand my little program to process this file as a flat comma delimited file, move it to some type of indexed file and finally to some RDBMS system. My little program started out at about 9 lines of code and is now at about 100 with 5 or six functions which I will eventually change to classes (I need to learn OOP to but one step at a time).
So any recommendations of code, online tutorial, or book that might address this file processing/database would be appreciated Thanks Len -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
