Hi list,
I am new to python and old to coding (as in I did it a long time
ago). I've got a task that cries out for a scripted solution --
importing chunks of ASCII data dumps from a point-of-sale system into
an openoffice.org spreadsheet. What a great chance for me to get my
coding skills back an
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:42:40PM -0600, Paul Watson wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > I am new to python and old to coding (as in I did it a long time
> > ago). I've got a task that cries out for a scripted solution --
> > impor
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:30:32PM -0800, John Machin wrote:
>
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > >>> o = OOoPy (infile='/home/andrew/monthly.ods')
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "", line 1, in ?
> > TypeErro
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 04:07:20PM -0800, Chao wrote:
> I've been trying to develop some numerical codes with python, however
> got disappointed.
>
> A very simple test,
>
> a = 1.0
>
> for i in range(1000):
> for j in range(1000):
>a = a+1
>
> unfortunately, it took 4.5 second
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:44:37AM +, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:27:07 -0500, Brian Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>
> > I envision a number of possible solutions. In one solution, I provide a
> > function
> > temp
Hi list,
I've tried, lots of interpreter testing and google grepping to figure
this out and I think I'm missing something fundamental.
I have an ascii data dump from a POS system that has 131 fields in a
single column in a flat file. I can easily open the file, read in the
data and assemble it i
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:34:58PM -0800, Todd Neal wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > I can successfully connect to mysql and do stuff to my tables my
> > specific problem is how to efficiently put those 132 fields into the
> > thing. All I have been able t
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:00:38AM -0800, Ant wrote:
>
>
> On Dec 20, 5:20 am, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > > >>> values = ", ".join([escapeAndQuote(f[:-2]) for f in fields])
>
> Obviously this is the appropriate c
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:22:59AM +0100, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > I've also tried building tuples and lists and then using this
> >
> > cursor.execute("insert into daily values (%s)", values)
> >
> > with no l
