Re: Creating a directory structure and modifying files automatically in Python

2012-05-07 Thread John Nagle
On 5/7/2012 9:09 PM, Steve Howell wrote: On May 7, 8:46 pm, John Nagle wrote: On 5/6/2012 9:59 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Javierwrites: Or not... Using directories may be a way to do rapid prototyping, and check quickly how things are going internally, without needing to resort to complex dat

Re: Creating a directory structure and modifying files automatically in Python

2012-05-07 Thread Steve Howell
On May 7, 8:46 pm, John Nagle wrote: > On 5/6/2012 9:59 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > > > Javier  writes: > >> Or not... Using directories may be a way to do rapid prototyping, and > >> check quickly how things are going internally, without needing to resort > >> to complex database interfaces. > > > db

Re: Creating a directory structure and modifying files automatically in Python

2012-05-07 Thread John Nagle
On 5/6/2012 9:59 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Javier writes: Or not... Using directories may be a way to do rapid prototyping, and check quickly how things are going internally, without needing to resort to complex database interfaces. dbm and shelve are extremely simple to use. Using the file syst

Re: Creating a directory structure and modifying files automatically in Python

2012-05-06 Thread Paul Rubin
Javier writes: > Or not... Using directories may be a way to do rapid prototyping, and > check quickly how things are going internally, without needing to resort > to complex database interfaces. dbm and shelve are extremely simple to use. Using the file system for a million item db is ridiculou

Re: Creating a directory structure and modifying files automatically in Python

2012-05-06 Thread Javier
>Learn how to use a database. Creating and managing a > big collection of directories to handle small data items is the > wrong approach to data storage. > >John Nagle Or not... Using directories may be a way to do rapid prototyp

Re: Creating a directory structure and modifying files automatically in Python

2012-04-30 Thread John Nagle
On 4/30/2012 8:19 AM, deltaquat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to automate the following task under Linux. I need to create a set of directories such as 075 095 100 125 The directory names may be read from a text file foobar, which also contains a number corresponding to each dir, like

Re: Creating a directory structure and modifying files automatically in Python

2012-04-30 Thread Chris Rebert
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 8:19 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to automate the following task under Linux. I need to create a > set of directories such as > > 075 > 095 > 100 > 125 > > The directory names may be read from a text file foobar, which also contains > a number corresponding to each

Re: Creating a directory structure and modifying files automatically in Python

2012-04-30 Thread MRAB
On 30/04/2012 16:19, deltaquat...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I would like to automate the following task under Linux. I need to create a set of directories such as 075 095 100 125 The directory names may be read from a text file foobar, which also contains a number corresponding to each dir, like

Creating a directory structure and modifying files automatically in Python

2012-04-30 Thread deltaquattro
Hi, I would like to automate the following task under Linux. I need to create a set of directories such as 075 095 100 125 The directory names may be read from a text file foobar, which also contains a number corresponding to each dir, like this: 075 1.818 095 2.181 100 2.579 125 3.019 In e