[Tutor] Re: variation of Unique items question

2005-02-04 Thread Scott Melnyk
Hello. Kent once again you have responded incredibly quickly in a most helpful manor. I sometimes wonder if the old reference to a "Kent-bot" has some truth to it. Thanks again, I will play with it and keep on going. Scott ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor

[Tutor] variation of Unique items question

2005-02-04 Thread Scott Melnyk
Hello once more. I am stuck on how best to tie the finding Unique Items in Lists ideas to my file I am stuck at level below: What I have here taken from the unique items thread does not work as I need to separate each grouping to the hg chain it is in (see below for examples) import sys WFILE=o

[Tutor] Re: sorting a 2 gb file- i shrunk it and turned it around

2005-01-28 Thread Scott Melnyk
Hello again! Thank you everyone for all the help. The most important step in dealing with Blast results is getting rid of all the extraneous information. The standard result file gives you everything you could ask for when comparing DNA sequences, however at this step I am looking for specific d

RE: [Tutor] sorting a 2 gb file- i shrunk it and turned it around

2005-01-25 Thread Scott Melnyk
Thanks for the thoughts so far. After posting I have been thinking about how to pare down the file (much of the info in the big file was not relevant to this question at hand). After the first couple of responses I was even more motivated to shrink the file so not have to set up a db. This test w

[Tutor] sorting a 2 gb file

2005-01-25 Thread Scott Melnyk
Hello! I am wondering about the best way to handle sorting some data from some of my results. I have an file in the form shown at the end (please forgive any wrapparounds due to the width of the screen here- the lines starting with ENS end with the e-12 or what have you on same line.) What I w

[Tutor] sorting and editing large data files

2004-12-16 Thread Scott Melnyk
Hello! I recently suffered a loss of programming files (and I had been putting off my backups...) The project I am working on involved the use of programs which I had been assisted with by some of the group. I am rewritten the programs however my results are not what I expected. I would appreci