While it may "attempt" to recognize the types, it in fact cannot be more correct than the programmer. Example:
data="""0X1E04 111""" That "looks" lile a hex and an int. But wait. What if it is instead two strings? In Python you can easily write a class with a interator that can read the data from the file/table and return the PROPER data types as lists, tuples, or dictionaries that are easy to manipulate. -Larry Bates York wrote: > Hi, > > R language has very high-level IO functions, its read.table can read a > total .csv file and recogonize the types of each column. write.table can > do the reverse. > > R's MySQL interface has high-level functions, too, e.g. dbWriteTable can > automatically build a MySQL table and write a table of R data into > it. > > Is there any python packages do similar things? > > > -York -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list