On Tuesday, 28 August 2012 23:49:54 UTC+1, MRAB wrote:
> On 28/08/2012 23:34, 9bizy wrote:
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> > This is what I have to reproduce the challenge I am having below:
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> >
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> >
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> > import csv
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> > import struct
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> >
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> >
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> > data = []
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> >
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> > for Node in csv.reader(file('s_data.xls')):
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> That tries to read the file as CSV, but, judging from the extension,
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> it's in Excel's format. You don't even use what is read, i.e. Node.
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> > data.append(list((file('s_data.xls'))))
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> >
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> That opens the file again and 'list' causes it to read the file as
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> though it were a series of lines in a text file, which, as I've said,
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> it looks like it isn't. The list of 'lines' is appended to the list
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> 'data', so that's a list of lists.
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> >
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> > data = struct.unpack('!B4HH', data)
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> > print "s_data.csv: ", data
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> >
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> > I tries so many format for the struct.unpack but I got this errors:
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> >
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> > Traceback (most recent call last):
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> >
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> > data = struct.unpack('!B4HH', data)
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> > struct.error: unpack requires a string argument of length 11
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> >
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> [snip]
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> It's complaining because it's expecting a string argument but you're
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> giving it a list instead.
How do I then convert data to a string argument in this case?
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