Re: [Tutor] Expanding a Python script to include a zcat and awk pre-process

2010-01-09 Thread galaxywatcher
I finally got it working! I would do a victory lap around my apartment building if I wasn't recovering from a broken ankle. Excuse my excitement, but this simple script marks a new level of Python proficiency for me. Thanks to Kent, Bob, Denis, and others who pointed me in the right directi

Re: [Tutor] Expanding a Python script to include a zcat and awk pre-process

2010-01-09 Thread Dave Angel
galaxywatc...@gmail.com wrote: After many more hours of reading and testing, I am still struggling to finish this simple script, which bear in mind, I already got my desired results by preprocessing with an awk one-liner. I am opening a zipped file properly, so I did make some progress, but

Re: [Tutor] Expanding a Python script to include a zcat and awk pre-process

2010-01-09 Thread galaxywatcher
After many more hours of reading and testing, I am still struggling to finish this simple script, which bear in mind, I already got my desired results by preprocessing with an awk one-liner. I am opening a zipped file properly, so I did make some progress, but simply assigning num1 and num2

Re: [Tutor] Expanding a Python script to include a zcat and awk pre-process

2010-01-08 Thread Kent Johnson
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:24 AM, wrote: > So how do I > uncompress zip and gzipped files in Python, zipfile and gzip > and how do I force split to only > evaluate the first two columns? Use the optional second argument to split(): line.split(',', 2) > Better yet, can I tell split to not evalu

Re: [Tutor] Expanding a Python script to include a zcat and awk pre-process

2010-01-08 Thread spir
galaxywatc...@gmail.com dixit: > I wrote a simple Python script to process a text file, but I had to > run a shell one liner to get the text file primed for the script. I > would much rather have the Python script handle the whole task without > any pre-processing at all. I will show 1) a sm

[Tutor] Expanding a Python script to include a zcat and awk pre-process

2010-01-07 Thread galaxywatcher
I wrote a simple Python script to process a text file, but I had to run a shell one liner to get the text file primed for the script. I would much rather have the Python script handle the whole task without any pre-processing at all. I will show 1) a small sample of the text file, 2) my scr