Larry Bates wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a machine (PLC) that is dumping its test results into a fixed-
length text file. I need to pull this data into a database (MySQL
most likely) so that I can access it with Crystal Reports to create
daily reports for my engineers.
[..]
I need to know how to write a script that will DAILY pull this text
file into a MySQL database.
Just use the built in import SQL statement to import the information.
You don't really need a Python script. import can handle fixed field
records (as well as CSV, etc.).
If the input data has to be pre-processed before storing it into the
database a Python script would be needed.
Just in case somebody needs a module for reading fixed-length files in
the spirit of module csv:
http://www.stroeder.com/pylib/fixedlenfields.py
For the MySQL part:
http://mysql-python.sourceforge.net/
Ciao, Michael.
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