Your are right, a program cannot be smarter than its programmer. However I need a program to parse any table-format data files offered by user. R offer such a function, I hope python such a function too.
-York > While it may "attempt" to recognize the types, it in fact cannot > be more correct than the programmer. Example: > > data="""0X1E04 111""" > > That "looks" lile a hex and an int. But wait. What if it is > instead two strings? > > In Python you can easily write a class with a interator that can > read the data from the file/table and return the PROPER data types > as lists, tuples, or dictionaries that are easy to manipulate. > > -Larry Bates > > York wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>R language has very high-level IO functions, its read.table can read a >>total .csv file and recogonize the types of each column. write.table can >>do the reverse. >> >>R's MySQL interface has high-level functions, too, e.g. dbWriteTable can >> automatically build a MySQL table and write a table of R data into >>it. >> >>Is there any python packages do similar things? >> >> >>-York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
