Re: [google-appengine] Re: CSV in Appengine!

2011-04-07 Thread Phil Young
I think he's already got the data he want, just needs to extract the individual fields from the CSV data. The split function will be a simple way to achieve this. e.g. strArray = strInputLine.split(',') strPlace = strArray[0] strXcoord = strArray[1] etc. HTH Phil On 6 April 2011 18:13, Barry

Re: [google-appengine] Re: CSV in Appengine!

2011-04-07 Thread Ikai Lan (Google)
Python has a CSV reader that does things like escape characters: http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google App Engine Blog: http://googleappengine.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/app_engine Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/appengine On Thu,

Re: [google-appengine] Re: CSV in Appengine!

2011-04-07 Thread Massimiliano
Thanks Ikai, but the problem is to obtain the city and the country from the coordinates. Max 2011/4/7 Ikai Lan (Google) ika...@google.com Python has a CSV reader that does things like escape characters: http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html Ikai Lan Developer Programs Engineer, Google

Re: [google-appengine] Re: CSV in Appengine!

2011-04-07 Thread Ross M Karchner
As long as you're only interested in *displaying* the city, and not querying on it, one sneaky solution would be to do the lookup in Javascript, using the clients processing power and not your App, using an API like SimpleGeo's or Google's reverse geocoder:

[google-appengine] Re: CSV in Appengine!

2011-04-06 Thread JH
Max, There is a nice python library called xlwt, I'm sure you can find it via Google. It lets you read and write Microsoft Excel files. Cheers On Apr 6, 9:07 am, Massimiliano massimiliano.pietr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, can someone help me?  A big problem for me, I hope easy for you. I have a

Re: [google-appengine] Re: CSV in Appengine!

2011-04-06 Thread Massimiliano
I'm not afraid how to import the CSV. I don't know how to manage the data to obtain the city and country with the coordinates! 2011/4/6 JH jamesthop...@gmail.com Max, There is a nice python library called xlwt, I'm sure you can find it via Google. It lets you read and write Microsoft Excel

Re: [google-appengine] Re: CSV in Appengine!

2011-04-06 Thread Barry Hunter
You need to use a geocoder (well technically a reverse geocoder). That will most probably be connecting to an external webservice, such as geonames, or the one in the Google Maps API. (note if you use the Google Maps API one, you must use teh data to shown a Google Map on your site) It could be