Re: handling tabular data in python--newbie question

2007-08-29 Thread hyena
Thanks Bruno and Steve for the quick answer! >What make you think such a thing ? I am also using R and java from time to time, and think it is very covinient that in R tables are handled as matrixs or data frames. Thus I expect python has something similiar. :) And I went for Steve's first sugg

Re: handling tabular data in python--newbie question

2007-08-29 Thread Steve Holden
hyena wrote: > Hi, > Just jump in python few days. I am wondering how to store and index a > table in python effectively and easily.I think the basic data types are not > very straight foward to handle a table (eg, from csv or data base.) > > I have a csv file, the first row of it is column

Re: handling tabular data in python--newbie question

2007-08-29 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
hyena a écrit : > Hi, > Just jump in python few days. I am wondering how to store and index a > table in python effectively and easily.I think the basic data types are not > very straight foward to handle a table (eg, from csv or data base.) What make you think such a thing ? > I have a csv

handling tabular data in python--newbie question

2007-08-29 Thread hyena
Hi, Just jump in python few days. I am wondering how to store and index a table in python effectively and easily.I think the basic data types are not very straight foward to handle a table (eg, from csv or data base.) I have a csv file, the first row of it is column names and the rest rows