Re: easy questions from python newbie

2006-07-24 Thread Tim
James Stroud wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > James Stroud wrote: > > > >>walterbyrd wrote: > >> > >>>This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I > >>>want to do is: > >>>1) count identical records in a cvs file > >>>2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate reco

Re: easy questions from python newbie

2006-07-24 Thread walterbyrd
Thanks to all who replied. As I mentioned, I am new to python. I will have to look some of this stuff, but that is fine. I am trying to learn. I am sorry I forgot to mention, the platform is windows-xp. I am doing this for a client who has a small warehouse operation. Personally, I usually use de

Re: easy questions from python newbie

2006-07-23 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, walterbyrd wrote: > This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I > want to do is: > 1) count identical records in a cvs file > 2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records > 3) open the new file in ms-excel > > For example, I will s

Re: easy questions from python newbie

2006-07-23 Thread James Stroud
John Machin wrote: > James Stroud wrote: > >>walterbyrd wrote: >> >>>This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I >>>want to do is: >>>1) count identical records in a cvs file >>>2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records >>>3) open the new file in ms-exc

Re: easy questions from python newbie

2006-07-23 Thread John Machin
James Stroud wrote: > walterbyrd wrote: > > This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I > > want to do is: > > 1) count identical records in a cvs file > > 2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records > > 3) open the new file in ms-excel > > > > For exampl

Re: easy questions from python newbie

2006-07-23 Thread James Stroud
walterbyrd wrote: > This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I > want to do is: > 1) count identical records in a cvs file > 2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records > 3) open the new file in ms-excel > > For example, I will start with a file like: >

easy questions from python newbie

2006-07-23 Thread walterbyrd
This is the first real python program I have ever worked on. What I want to do is: 1) count identical records in a cvs file 2) create a new file with quantities instead duplicate records 3) open the new file in ms-excel For example, I will start with a file like: 1001 1012 1008 1012 1001 1001 an