Heh,
Cut 'im some slack there Bob, I only just figured out that line[:1] ==
line[0]...
On 10/28/05, bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 01:42 PM 10/27/2005, Adam wrote:
> > >if line[:1] == "1":
> >
> >This line won't work because you're getting the first 2 characters from
> >the line
>
> Oh? Did
At 01:42 PM 10/27/2005, Adam wrote:
> >if line[:1] == "1":
>
>This line won't work because you're getting the first 2 characters from
>the line
Oh? Did you test that? When I do that I get 1 character. Why? Because
slicing goes UP TO the 2nd argument.
>>> 'abc'[:1]
'a'
>if line[:1] == "1":
This line won't work because you're getting the first 2 characters from
the line and seeing if it's equal to a string of length one. For
example in your test file if you put this line,
1 12.4 12.0 * 10 ,
through that bit of code it would see if "1 " == "1", which
At 12:18 PM 10/27/2005, Mike Haft wrote:
>Apologies for not making things clearer last time.
>
>My specific problems are:
>
>why can I not get the readline() or readlines() functions to work, I'm
>told they are not defined whenever I try.
Mike * Oh * Mike ... and all others ...
Please Post The Co
On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, Mike Haft wrote:
> why can I not get the readline() or readlines() functions to work, I'm
> told they are not defined whenever I try.
Don't paraphrase. *grin*
Show us what you did in terms of the code that you ran. Also, include the
literal error message and its tracebac
Apologies for not making things clearer last time.
My specific problems are:
why can I not get the readline() or readlines() functions to work, I'm
told they are not defined whenever I try.
Also the following:
if line[:1] == "1":
collects data from month 1, 10, 11, and 12. How do I make the re
