> From: Alex Willmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> inquired > I'm trying to track down the name of a file format and python module, > that was featured in the Daily Python URL some time in the last month > or > two. > > The format was ASCII with a multiline header defining types for the > comma seperated column data below. It may have had the capability to > store multiple tables in one file. There was news on the homepage that > an alternate 'no data here' syntax was also supported. > > An example file had vaguely this structure: > > columnname as datatype > columnname as datatype > columnname as datatype > columnname as datatype > > data,data,data,data > data,"other data",data,data > data,data,"",data
Was it something like ARFF? http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/arff.html Google "ARFF Python": http://www.google.com/search?q=arff+python ----------------------------------------------------- % 1. Title: Iris Plants Database % % 2. Sources: % (a) Creator: R.A. Fisher % (b) Donor: Michael Marshall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) % (c) Date: July, 1988 % @RELATION iris @ATTRIBUTE sepallength NUMERIC @ATTRIBUTE sepalwidth NUMERIC @ATTRIBUTE petallength NUMERIC @ATTRIBUTE petalwidth NUMERIC @ATTRIBUTE class {Iris-setosa,Iris-versicolor,Iris-virginica} The Data of the ARFF file looks like the following: @DATA 5.1,3.5,1.4,0.2,Iris-setosa 4.9,3.0,1.4,0.2,Iris-setosa 4.7,3.2,1.3,0.2,Iris-setosa 4.6,3.1,1.5,0.2,Iris-setosa 5.0,3.6,1.4,0.2,Iris-setosa 5.4,3.9,1.7,0.4,Iris-setosa 4.6,3.4,1.4,0.3,Iris-setosa 5.0,3.4,1.5,0.2,Iris-setosa 4.4,2.9,1.4,0.2,Iris-setosa 4.9,3.1,1.5,0.1,Iris-setosa Lines that begin with a % are comments. The @RELATION, @ATTRIBUTE and @DATA declarations are case insensitive. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
