Re: Noobie: Open file - read characters multiply

2006-12-27 Thread gonzlobo
Thanks to all that responded. I chose a modified version of Scott's second recommendation: time = line[:8] decoded_File.write( '%00.4f' % (int(time, 16) * .0001) + ', ') 'print ' added a CRLF that I didn't need, so I went with '.print' (I need to process about 20 values from the remaining

Noobie: Open file - read characters multiply

2006-12-26 Thread gonzlobo
I've been using Python for a few days. It's such the perfect language for parsing data! I really like it so far, but I'm having a hard time reading a file, reading the first few hex characters converting them to an integer. Once the characters are converted to an integer, I'd like to write the

Re: Noobie: Open file - read characters multiply

2006-12-26 Thread Scott David Daniels
gonzlobo wrote: I've been using Python for a few days. It's such the perfect language for parsing data! I really like it so far, but I'm having a hard time reading a file, reading the first few hex characters converting them to an integer. Once the characters are converted to an integer,

Re: Noobie: Open file - read characters multiply

2006-12-26 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 16:50:06 -0700, gonzlobo wrote: I've been using Python for a few days. It's such the perfect language for parsing data! I really like it so far, but I'm having a hard time reading a file, reading the first few hex characters converting them to an integer. Once the

Re: Noobie: Open file - read characters multiply

2006-12-26 Thread WaterWalk
gonzlobo wrote: I've been using Python for a few days. It's such the perfect language for parsing data! I really like it so far, but I'm having a hard time reading a file, reading the first few hex characters converting them to an integer. Once the characters are converted to an integer,

Re: Noobie: Open file - read characters multiply

2006-12-26 Thread WaterWalk
WaterWalk wrote: gonzlobo wrote: I've been using Python for a few days. It's such the perfect language for parsing data! I really like it so far, but I'm having a hard time reading a file, reading the first few hex characters converting them to an integer. Once the characters are

Re: Noobie: Open file - read characters multiply

2006-12-26 Thread WaterWalk
WaterWalk wrote: WaterWalk wrote: gonzlobo wrote: I've been using Python for a few days. It's such the perfect language for parsing data! I really like it so far, but I'm having a hard time reading a file, reading the first few hex characters converting them to an integer.