Re: [Tutor] Suggestions Please

2014-10-07 Thread Phillip Pugh
Thank you All!! I am impressed with the support. It was very helpful and timely. I was able to put together a script to do what I wanted. I know now that I wont be wasting time learning Python. As with any language, it is about understanding the syntax. As I mentioned before, I want to make

Re: [Tutor] Suggestions Please

2014-10-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 08/10/14 02:02, Phillip Pugh wrote: with open("InputTest.txt","r") as f: with open("Outputt.txt", "w") as fw: for line in f: first,second = line[:32], line[32:37] if first.isspace()== False: fw.write (second.strip()+ first.str

Re: [Tutor] Scaling photos

2014-10-07 Thread Jan Erik Moström
Thanks for the suggestions On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Alan Gauld wrote: > On 06/10/14 23:08, Jan Erik Moström wrote: >> >> I want to write a small script that scales photos. I want the scaled >> photos to keep all meta data available in the originals. I also want >> to keep this python only

Re: [Tutor] Using xml.etree ElementTree

2014-10-07 Thread Juan Christian
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Danny Yoo wrote: > Hi Juan, > > I think you're looking for: > > http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#searching-for-subelements > > where you should be able to do something like: > > sml._xml.findtext('steamID64') > > to get the text "76561198084537782". > > >

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 07/10/14 20:53, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: In this case, I was able to determine which line I > was interested in because it had a > specific marker. > From that point, I knew specific markers to look > for for each desired field. I thought the desired parenthesis couple was assigned > to th

Re: [Tutor] Using xml.etree ElementTree

2014-10-07 Thread Danny Yoo
>> It's working, the thing is that I don't know how to "navigate" inside the >> XML, I read the doc but everything there regarding key-value is on >> for-loops, I need something more direct, like: Hi Juan, I think you're looking for: http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm#searching-for-subeleme

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Martin A. Brown
Good afternoon Clayton, !A regex doesn't understand the structure of an html document. For !example !you need to keep track of the nesting level manually to find the cells !of !the inner of two nested tables. ! !> question still remains: does the !> search start at the beginning of the line eac

Re: [Tutor] Using xml.etree ElementTree

2014-10-07 Thread Juan Christian
On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Juan Christian wrote: > I have this XML scheme: > http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198084537782?xml=1 > > My code: > > self._xml = ElementTree.fromstring(requests.get(url + '?xml=1').content) > print(self._xml.tag) > returns > profile > > It's working, the t

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Danny Yoo [mailto:d...@hashcollision.org] !Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 11:14 AM !To: Clayton Kirkwood !Cc: Python Tutor Mailing List !Subject: Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q ! !> So, what makes regex wrong for this job? question still remains: does

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!> !> So, what makes regex wrong for this job? ! !A regex doesn't understand the structure of an html document. For !example !you need to keep track of the nesting level manually to find the cells !of !the inner of two nested tables. ! !> question still remains: does the !> search start at the beg

[Tutor] Using xml.etree ElementTree

2014-10-07 Thread Juan Christian
I have this XML scheme: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198084537782?xml=1 My code: self._xml = ElementTree.fromstring(requests.get(url + '?xml=1').content) print(self._xml.tag) > returns > profile It's working, the thing is that I don't know how to "navigate" inside the XML, I read the

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Danny Yoo
> So, what makes regex wrong for this job? question still remains: does the > search start at the beginning of the line each time or does it step forward > from the last search? I will check out beautiful soup as suggested in a > subsequent mail; I'd still like to finish this process:<}} Mathemat

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Peter Otten
Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > > > !-Original Message- > !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On > !Behalf Of Peter Otten > !Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 3:50 AM > !To: tutor@python.org > !Subject: Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q > ! > !Clayton Kirkwoo

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
!-Original Message- !From: Tutor [mailto:tutor-bounces+crk=godblessthe...@python.org] On !Behalf Of Peter Otten !Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 3:50 AM !To: tutor@python.org !Subject: Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q ! !Clayton Kirkwood wrote: ! !> I was trying to keep it generic

Re: [Tutor] format command help

2014-10-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 07/10/14 14:40, Richard Dillon wrote: I create column headings using \t print('base1\tbase2\theight\tarea') and I would like the numbers to align with the headings. > I think that I need to use format instead of doing this: Yes, using tabs is a bit hit and miss depemding on the lengt

[Tutor] format command help

2014-10-07 Thread Richard Dillon
I create column headings using \t print('base1\tbase2\theight\tarea') and I would like the numbers to align with the headings. I think that I need to use format instead of doing this: print(A,' ',B,' ',C,' ',int(area1)) print(D,' ',E,' ',F,' ',int(area2)) b

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Dave Angel
"Clayton Kirkwood" Wrote in message: > I was trying to keep it generic. > Wrapped data file: > data-tmpl=""> href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SWKS"; > data-rapid_p="18">SWKS data-model="name:DatumModel;id:SWKS:qsi:wk52:low;" > data-tmpl="change:yfin.datum">23.27', line_in)

Re: [Tutor] Suggestions Please (Martin A. Brown)

2014-10-07 Thread Dino Bektešević
Hey, Most of your answers you already got. I'm just willing to share a short story of mine considering big data and python. I've done computer vision on images ~15Mb big each. There's 6 filters of which each can reach 7TB in total size. I ran detection algorithms per 2 filters at a time that total

Re: [Tutor] Suggestions Please

2014-10-07 Thread Francois Dion
El Oct 6, 2014, a las 6:42 PM, Phillip Pugh escribió: > I am trying to decide if Python is the right toolset for me. I do a lot of > data analytics. Over the years I have used a lot of SQL and VBA, but the data > sources are getting bigger. I am thinking Python may be what I need to use, > but

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Peter Otten
Clayton Kirkwood wrote: > I was trying to keep it generic. > Wrapped data file: >data-model="name:DatumModel;id:null;" data-tmpl="">data-ylk="cat:portfolio;cpos:1" >href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SWKS"; >

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 07/10/14 00:55, Clayton Kirkwood wrote: I haven't been able to find an definitive answer. There isn't one. Each technique has its place. It depends on what you are doing and why. And to answer that you need to ask a definitive question. I am looking through a file(stream:<), for several m

Re: [Tutor] Suggestions Please

2014-10-07 Thread Alan Gauld
On 06/10/14 23:42, Phillip Pugh wrote: I am trying to decide if Python is the right toolset for me. > I do a lot of data analytics. It can almost certainly do what you want but there may be other tools that do it better. However, data analytics is quite vague. It depends on what kind of data an

Re: [Tutor] search/match file position q

2014-10-07 Thread Clayton Kirkwood
I was trying to keep it generic. Wrapped data file: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SWKS"; data-rapid_p="18">SWKS23.27', line_in) #scan to SWKS"> in data #line, stock sh