Brian wrote: > First let me say that I appreciate the responses that everyone has > given. > > A friend of mine is a ruby programmer but knows nothing about python. > He gave me the script below and it does exactly what I want, only it is > in Ruby. Not knowing ruby this is greek to me, and I would like to > re-write it in python. > > I ask then, is this essentially what others here have shown me to do, > or is it in a different vein all together? > Leif's Python example uses the csv module which understands a lot more about the peculiarities of the CSV/TSV formats. The Ruby example prepends a <style>...</style> block.
The Ruby example splits each line to form a table row and each row on tabs, to form the cells. The thing about TSV/CSV formats is that their is no one format. you need to check how your TSV creator generates the TSV file: Does it put quotes around text fields? What kind of quotes? How does it represent null fields? Might you get fields that include newlines? - P.S. I'm not a Ruby programmer, just read the source ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
