thanks for all of the responses, has been really helpful
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Russel Winder rus...@winder.org.uk wrote:
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 19:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be promoting use of the
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 19:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
the % operator? % is deprecated now.
It most certainly is not.
There are no plans to
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 12:57 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote:
[...]
I think the OP is just learning and this thread may have gotten of track.
I didn't realize discussion of immediate side issues and alternatives,
and allowing people to exchange information was OT in this mailing list.
Also of course,
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 16:03 +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
[...]
I agree, but in this case SQL seemed like the most likely fit of the
ones I knew. however:
Which raises the point that the best design of a given problem in a
given context is the one that is most comprehensible to the people
directly
On 17/05/12 08:39, Russel Winder wrote:
Interesting, or not, the Big Data people are rapidly realizing that
data mining and SQL are mutually incompatible.
After many years working with big data mining teams/apps my considered
opinion is use SAS or one of its peers! It costs money but it
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
the % operator? % is deprecated now.
It most certainly is not.
There are no plans to deprecate the string % operator any time in the
foreseeable future. It
On 5/17/2012 3:27 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
the % operator? % is deprecated now.
I for one do not like seeing % deprecated. Why? It is not broken, and
IMHO the easiest to use of all formatting options.
--
Bob Gailer
On 17/05/2012 10:35, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
the % operator? % is deprecated now.
It most certainly is not.
There are no plans to deprecate the string %
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 19:14 +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
On 15/05/12 10:36, Russel Winder wrote:
...queries passed over it then year a database it the
right thing -- though I would probably choose a non-SQL database.
As a matter of interest why?
Because there are alternatives that need to be
On 16/05/12 12:27, Russel Winder wrote:
As a matter of interest why?
Because there are alternatives that need to be investigated on a per
problem basis for the best database.
I agree, but in this case SQL seemed like the most likely fit of the
ones I knew. however:
SQL
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Alan Gauld alan.ga...@btinternet.com wrote:
On 16/05/12 12:27, Russel Winder wrote:
As a matter of interest why?
Because there are alternatives that need to be investigated on a per
problem basis for the best database.
I agree, but in this case SQL
Thanks Bob,
sql does appear to be very simple although I cannot get the queries to
work. Can you suggest a site that has examples for what I am trying to do.
I have done some googling but it has not been successful so far.
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:38 PM, bob gailer bgai...@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/05/12 07:12, questions anon wrote:
Thanks Bob,
sql does appear to be very simple although I cannot get the queries to
work. Can you suggest a site that has examples for what I am trying to
do. I have done some googling but it has not been successful so far.
You can try my tutorial topic
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 23:38 -0400, bob gailer wrote:
[...]
I would set up a SQLite database with a table of 4 numeric columns:
year, month, rainfall, firearea
Use SQL to select the desired date range and do the max and avg
calculations:
select year, avg(firearea), max(rainfall) from table
On 15/05/12 10:36, Russel Winder wrote:
...queries passed over it then year a database it the
right thing -- though I would probably choose a non-SQL database.
As a matter of interest why?
And what kind of alternative would you use?
It seems to me that SQL is ideally suited(*) to this type of
I am completely new to dictionaries and I am not even sure if this is what
I need to use.
I have a text file that I would like to run summary stats on particular
months, years and climate indices (in this case the climate indices are
rainfall and fire area, so not actualy climate indices at all).
On 5/14/2012 10:16 PM, questions anon wrote:
I am completely new to dictionaries and I am not even sure if this is
what I need to use.
I have a text file that I would like to run summary stats on
particular months, years and climate indices (in this case the climate
indices are rainfall and
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