Greetings Francis,
: >You don't show even a snippet of code. If you are asking
: >for help here, it is good form to show us your code. Since
: >you don't state how you are reading the data and how you are
: >printing the data, we can't help much. Here are some tips:
: >
: > * Consider learning how to use the csv module, particularly in
: > your case, csv.reader (as Ramit Prasad has already suggested).
: >
: > * Consider checking the bytestream to see if the bytes produced
: > on output are the same as on input (also, read the text that
: > Mark Tompkins indicated and learn to distinguish Unicode from
: > UTF-8).
: >
: > * Report back to the list the version of Python you are using.
: > [Different versions of Python have subtly different handling of
: > non ASCII character set data, but this should probably not be an
: > issue for the more obvious issue you are showing above.]
: >
: >We can have no idea what your ultimate goal is with the data, but
: >can help you much more if you show us the code.
: >
: >Here's a sample of what I would/could do (Python 2.6.5):
: >
: > import csv
: > reader = csv.reader(open('input-data.txt'),delimiter=',')
: > for row in reader:
: > print 'The capital of %s is %s' % (row[0], row[1],).
: >
: >The above is trivial, but if you would like some more substantive
: >assistance, you should describe your problem in a bit more detail.
:
:
: I apologize for not including any code, but that's because I
: didn't have any. I had no idea where to even begin. I have a 450
: page book on beginner Python programming and nothing like the
: above is in there. Incidentally, when I try the above code in
: Python 3.2 I get an "invalid syntax" message.
One of the famous differences between Python 2.x and Python 3.x [0]
is 'print'. Try this:
import csv
reader = csv.reader(open('input-data.txt'),delimiter=',')
for row in reader:
print('The capital of %s is %s' % (row[0], row[1],))
: My ultimate goal is to be able to do what I've done for years in
: SAS, where I consider myself an expert: read in some raw data,
: perform some mathematical operations on the data, then output it.
: Later this spring I will be teaching an audience that does not
: have access to SAS (community college students) and Python was
: suggested as an alternative.
OK, so this list is a good place to be for such initial
explorations. There are a number of libraries that can help with
the mathematical operations and you will probably get many good
suggestions.
Welcome to the list,
-Martin
[0] http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python2orPython3
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Martin A. Brown
http://linux-ip.net/
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