Re: python skipping lines?

2006-11-27 Thread lisa . engblom
Thanks, everyone for replying so promptly. I got it to work the way I intended, and have some ideas for how to make it much cleaner. - Lisa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: python skipping lines?

2006-11-27 Thread Tim Chase
I'm not sure if this will /solve/ your problem, but it's something I noticed... > UnitList = open('/Python25/working/FacList.txt', 'r') > RawData = open('/Python25/working/data.txt', 'r') Here, you open RawData once... > Output = open('/Python25/working/output.txt', 'a') > > def PullHourlyData

Re: python skipping lines?

2006-11-27 Thread Jussi Salmela
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > RawData = open('/Python25/working/data.txt', 'r') You open this file only once. The first time in here: > def PullHourlyData(filename, facility, unit): > for line in filename: reads all of the file - nothing left for the other function calls! A better way wou

Re: python skipping lines?

2006-11-27 Thread Larry Bates
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > thats easy enough to solve > > """test text.py > for playing around with my text editing task > """ > > UnitList = open('/Python25/working/FacList.txt', 'r') > RawData = open('/Python25/working/data.txt', 'r') > Output = open('/Python25/working/output.txt', 'a') > > de

Re: python skipping lines?

2006-11-27 Thread lisa . engblom
thats easy enough to solve """test text.py for playing around with my text editing task """ UnitList = open('/Python25/working/FacList.txt', 'r') RawData = open('/Python25/working/data.txt', 'r') Output = open('/Python25/working/output.txt', 'a') def PullHourlyData(filename, facility, unit):

Re: python skipping lines?

2006-11-27 Thread Jordan Greenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Any ideas of what could be the problem? > Hard to say without seeing your code. Jordan Greenberg -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

python skipping lines?

2006-11-27 Thread lisa . engblom
Hi, I've just started programming in python, and have run into an unexpected problem. I am using python to pull text data from some csv files. I have one file that has the important identifiers (name, etc) and other files with lots of other data. I wrote a function that takes the file name and