Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-12 Thread kpp9c
paul that is awesome so much better than what i did which was lamo brute force method. I formmatted and reformatted my input data and stuffed it in a HUGE dictionary it was stupid and kludgy i hope to study all these approaches and learn something here's what i came up with ...

Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread kpp9c
I am kind of in a bit of a jam (okay a big jam) and i was hoping that someone here could give me a quick hand. I had a few pages of time calculations to do. So, i just started in on them typing them in my time calculator and writing them in by hand. Now i realize, that i really need a script to

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread Paul Rubin
kpp9c [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These are analog tapes that were digitized (on to CD or a digital tape) that have now been exported as individual files that are meant to be part of an on-line audio archive. ... I was hoping and praying that some one here was feeling generous and show me the

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread kpp9c
Yes, Ultimately it will be part of a large digital archive available for researchers on site and eventually probably on-line for the New York Public Library. It is a huge undertaking and most of the soundfiles have been made. I (we) are struggling with the sheer size of the documentation

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread Mark McEahern
kpp9c wrote: The input would like so: [...] Attached is a first cut at a parser that actually uses the raw content of your original email. You'll notice that the net effect is that the parser instance's items attribute contains the source ordered list of items with attributes for each of

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread sp1d3rx
read below for my sample script kpp9c wrote: I am kind of in a bit of a jam (okay a big jam) and i was hoping that someone here could give me a quick hand. I had a few pages of time calculations to do. So, i just started in on them typing them in my time calculator and writing them in by

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread sp1d3rx
Gosh Mark you must be a friggin genius or something. I can't even begin to read your code. Anyways, I think mine is easier to understand. My program has all the functions (save a couple) that you would need for your project. It's an exercise for you to copy and paste what you want where you want

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread kpp9c
Thanks for this Everyone! Trying to work with all the stuff folks are giving me on this i a have come across a problem... down the line i notice that some of the times will also have an hour as well as in H:M:S (e.g. 1:22:40) so in some cases i would need to convert H:M:S to sec and some just

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread kpp9c
I also notice that there is the is the 'datetime' module, which is new to version 2.3, which i now have access to. My feeling is that this will do much of what i want, but i can't get my head round the standard library reference stuff http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-datetime.html I don't

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
using my code above... start = x[3].split(:) #split the minutes from the seconds this splits something like 1:22:40 into three parts 1(hours), 22(mintes), 40(seconds) so, you must add a special case handler... if len(start) == 3: { start[1] = int(start[0]) * 60 + int(start[1]) start = start[1],

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread kpp9c
still working on it and also fixing the input data. I think for simplicity and consistency's sake i will have *all* time values input and output as hh:mm:ss maybe that would be easier but i have a few thousand find and replaceeseseses to do now (yes i am doing them by hand) grr... this is

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread kpp9c
so all the imput will look more like this now... ( no comments either) tem_133, DAT_20, 7, 00:58:25, 01:15:50 Item_134, DAT_20, 8, 01:15:50, 01:32:15 Item_135, DAT_21, 1, 00:01:00, 00:36:15 Item_136, DAT_60, 3, 00:18:30 Item_136, DAT_60, 4, 00:19:30 Item_136, DAT_60, 5, 00:23:00, 00:28:00

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread Paul McGuire
kpp9c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] still working on it and also fixing the input data. I think for simplicity and consistency's sake i will have *all* time values input and output as hh:mm:ss maybe that would be easier but i have a few thousand find and

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
man, now that is beautifully done. Paul, I wish I knew about pyparsing a while ago. I could have used it in a few projects. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Time script help sought!

2005-01-11 Thread Paul McGuire
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] man, now that is beautifully done. Paul, I wish I knew about pyparsing a while ago. I could have used it in a few projects. :) Thanks for the compliment! I'll be the first to admit that pyparsing can be a bit persnickety in some