[Tutor] Python Saved the Day

2011-12-04 Thread Mark Lybrand
No question. Last weekend I buckled down and learned as much Python as I could (just because I have had an interest to do so for a while). When I got to work on Monday, there was a serious database issue that needed addressing. As I was trying to assess the situation, I employed Python to help

Re: [Tutor] Python Saved the Day

2011-12-04 Thread wesley chun
Congrats! I love hearing stuff like this... keep them coming! I'm curious as to how Python was able to help you get your job done this time (without going into anything confidential naturally). What was it about the language? Or was it specific Python modules/packages you used for the analysis?

Re: [Tutor] Python Saved the Day

2011-12-04 Thread bodsda
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Re: [Tutor] Python Saved the Day

2011-12-04 Thread Robert Sjoblom
I had a situation where there were 300+ files needed to be renamed to standardized naming; the problem was that each group that had worked on the project had their own naming convention and group tag. One group had date_number_subnumber_grouptag where others might have

Re: [Tutor] Python Saved the Day

2011-12-04 Thread Sarma Tangirala
We shoud have a new tag say [Superman Python] for posts like these. :D ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor

Re: [Tutor] Python Saved the Day

2011-12-04 Thread Wayne Werner
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:51 AM, wesley chun wes...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone else have similar stories? (I think I may be biased as I use Python for everything, trouble or otherwise, so I can't tell the difference anymore!) I work in a .NET shop, and the last project I worked on required

Re: [Tutor] Python Saved the Day

2011-12-04 Thread python
I worked on a large pharma sales data warehouse project and we had the need to profile some complex 3rd party data feeds that were poorly documented. I was able to write, test, and run the code (across 500Gb data) to provide the required profiling information in less time than it took to install