En Wed, 01 Aug 2007 23:21:53 -0300, goldtech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> In Python 2.1 are there any tools to take a column from a DB and do a > frequency analysis - a breakdown of the values for this column? > > Possibly a histogram or a table saying out of 500 records I have one > hundred and two "301" ninety-eight "212" values and three-hundred > "410"? > Is SQL the way to for this? I'd start with: select column, count(column), min(column), max(column) from table group by column order by count(column) desc and then build an histogram from that (using PyChart for instance). Based on this distribution curve, one can refine the analysis in a lot of ways... > Of course there'd be 1000's of values.... Should not be a problem for today's DBMS and hardware... -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
