Re: [Tutor] Suggestions Please

2014-10-08 Thread Dave Angel
Phillip Pugh Wrote in message: > 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 s

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] Suggestions Please (Martin A. Brown)

2014-10-07 Thread Dino Bektešević
p track of modules, after all that's where python really shines. I recommend books: "Learning python the hard way" and "Dive into python". also as a disclaimer, I've ran over a lot of things and some I've really bludgeoned in short don't hold any of the hal

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] 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] Suggestions Please

2014-10-06 Thread Martin A. Brown
Greetings Phillip, I am trying to decide if Python is the right toolset for me. It might be. That depends on you and also the environment in which you operate. 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. Data s

Re: [Tutor] Suggestions Please

2014-10-06 Thread Dave Angel
Phillip Pugh Wrote in message: > 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 I am in the early stage

[Tutor] Suggestions Please

2014-10-06 Thread Phillip Pugh
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 I am in the early stages of getting to know Python. Can you po