Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-21 Thread 20/20 Lab
Your the second to recommend this to me. I ended up picking it up last week. So I need to sit down with it. I was able to get a working project. However, I dont fully grasp the details on how. So the book will help I'm sure. Thank you. On 05/20/2015 05:50 AM, darnold via Python-list wrote

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-20 Thread darnold via Python-list
I recommend getting your hands on "Automate The Boring Stuff With Python" from no starch press: http://www.nostarch.com/automatestuff I've not read it in its entirety, but it's very beginner-friendly and is targeted at just the sort of processing you appear to be doing. HTH, Don -- https://ma

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-15 Thread Ziqi Xiong
maybe we can change this list to dict, using item[0] and item[1] as keys, the whole item as value . then you can update by the same key i think Tim Chase 于2015年5月15日 周五01:17写道: > On 2015-05-14 09:57, 20/20 Lab wrote: > > On 05/13/2015 06:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > >>> I have a LARGE csv file

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-15 Thread 20/20 Lab
On 05/13/2015 06:12 PM, Dave Angel wrote: On 05/13/2015 08:45 PM, 20/20 Lab wrote:> You accidentally replied to me, rather than the mailing list. Please use reply-list, or if your mailer can't handle that, do a Reply-All, and remove the parts you don't want. > > On 05/13/2015 05:07 PM, Dav

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-15 Thread 20/20 Lab
On 05/13/2015 06:12 PM, Dave Angel wrote: On 05/13/2015 08:45 PM, 20/20 Lab wrote:> You accidentally replied to me, rather than the mailing list. Please use reply-list, or if your mailer can't handle that, do a Reply-All, and remove the parts you don't want. ...and now that you mention it.

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-14 Thread Tim Chase
On 2015-05-14 09:57, 20/20 Lab wrote: > On 05/13/2015 06:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> I have a LARGE csv file that I need to process. 110+ columns, >>> 72k rows. I managed to write enough to reduce it to a few >>> hundred rows, and the five columns I'm interested in. > I actually stumbled ac

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-14 Thread Albert-Jan Roskam via Python-list
- On Thu, May 14, 2015 3:35 PM CEST Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >On Wed, 13 May 2015 16:24:30 -0700, 20/20 Lab declaimed >the following: > >>Now is were I have my problem: >> >>myList = [ [123, "XXX", "Item", "Qty", "Noise"], >>[72976, "YYY", "Item", "Qty", "

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-14 Thread 20/20 Lab
On 05/13/2015 06:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Thu, 14 May 2015 09:24 am, 20/20 Lab wrote: I'm a beginner to python. Reading here and there. Written a couple of short and simple programs to make life easier around the office. That being said, I'm not even sure what I need to ask for. I'

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 14 May 2015 09:24 am, 20/20 Lab wrote: > I'm a beginner to python. Reading here and there. Written a couple of > short and simple programs to make life easier around the office. > > That being said, I'm not even sure what I need to ask for. I've never > worked with external data before.

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-13 Thread Dave Angel
On 05/13/2015 08:45 PM, 20/20 Lab wrote:> You accidentally replied to me, rather than the mailing list. Please use reply-list, or if your mailer can't handle that, do a Reply-All, and remove the parts you don't want. > > On 05/13/2015 05:07 PM, Dave Angel wrote: >> On 05/13/2015 07:24 PM, 20

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-13 Thread MRAB
On 2015-05-14 01:06, Ethan Furman wrote: On 05/13/2015 04:24 PM, 20/20 Lab wrote: I'm a beginner to python. Reading here and there. Written a couple of short and simple programs to make life easier around the office. That being said, I'm not even sure what I need to ask for. I've never worked

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-13 Thread Ethan Furman
On 05/13/2015 04:24 PM, 20/20 Lab wrote: I'm a beginner to python. Reading here and there. Written a couple of short and simple programs to make life easier around the office. That being said, I'm not even sure what I need to ask for. I've never worked with external data before. I have a LARG

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-13 Thread Ben Finney
20/20 Lab writes: > I'm a beginner to python. Reading here and there. Written a couple of > short and simple programs to make life easier around the office. Welcome, and congratulations on self-educating to this point. > myList = [ [123, "XXX", "Item", "Qty", "Noise"], >[72976, "YYY

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-13 Thread Dave Angel
On 05/13/2015 07:24 PM, 20/20 Lab wrote: I'm a beginner to python. Reading here and there. Written a couple of short and simple programs to make life easier around the office. Welcome to Python, and to this mailing list. That being said, I'm not even sure what I need to ask for. I've never

Re: Looking for direction

2015-05-13 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 14/05/2015 00:24, 20/20 Lab wrote: I'm a beginner to python. Reading here and there. Written a couple of short and simple programs to make life easier around the office. Welcome :) That being said, I'm not even sure what I need to ask for. I've never worked with external data before. I