John Machin wrote:
> More meaningful names wouldn't go astray either :-)
I heartily concur!
Instead of starting with:
fields = line.strip().split(',')
you could use something like:
(f_name, f_date, f_time, ...) = line.strip().split(',')
Of course then you won't be able to use ', '.join(fiel
Lorn Davies wrote:
> if (fields[8] == 'N' or 'P') and (fields[6] == '0' or '1'):
> ## This line above doesn't work, can't figure out how to struct?
In Python you would need to phrase that as follows:
if (fields[8] == 'N' or fields[8] == 'P') and (fields[6] == '0'
or fields[6] == '1'):
or al
Hi,
Lorn Davies wrote:
> . working with text files that range from 100MB to 1G in size.
> .
> XYZ,04JAN1993,9:30:27,28.87,7600,40,0,Z,N
> XYZ,04JAN1993,9:30:28,28.87,1600,40,0,Z,N
> .
I've found that for working with simple large text files like this,
nothing beats the plain old buil
