Re: [Tutor] absolute beginner

2008-09-10 Thread J. Van Brimmer
John Fouhy wrote: 2008/9/11 J. Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This should be enough to get you started. You'll just have to jump in and read, read, and read. :-) I would say: jump in and code, code, and code. Reading's easy, but if you're anything like me, you&

Re: [Tutor] absolute beginner

2008-09-10 Thread J. Van Brimmer
Johnny wrote: Anyone have any advice for an all out beginner? Advice as in... The best book?...best tutor web page? I am wanting so badly to learn Python. I have went to this site... http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html This gave me lots of info,, but with so many books to choose from, I can

Re: [Tutor] How to match strange characters

2008-09-08 Thread J. Van Brimmer
Thanks Paul, this looks like just what I need to reformat PRECESS's output into what I need. Thanks, Jerry Paul McGuire wrote: Instead of trying to match on the weird characters, in order to remove them, here is a pyparsing program that ignores those header lines and just extracts the interest

Re: [Tutor] How to match strange characters

2008-09-08 Thread J. Van Brimmer
Kent Johnson wrote: On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:46 AM, J. Van Brimmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a legacy program at work that outputs a text file with this header: ÉÍÍ» º Radio Source Precession Program

[Tutor] How to match strange characters

2008-09-07 Thread J. Van Brimmer
I have a legacy program at work that outputs a text file with this header: ÉÍÍ» º Radio Source Precession Program º º by John B. Doe º º 31 August 1992 º ÈÍÍÍ