Re: [Tutor] handling of tabular data

2005-10-10 Thread Alan Gauld
> overhead for me to store the data persistently, because then I would > have to manage updates to individual rows and columns right now, I > simply construct the latest version of my data table from my source > data, whenever the script is run this is also the reason why I am using > python in the

Re: [Tutor] handling of tabular data

2005-10-10 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Frank Hoffs�mmer wrote: > thanks for your answers looks like SQL is the ticket for such > problems... because my data is updated quite often, it feels like an > overhead for me to store the data persistently, because then I would > have to manage updates to indiv

Re: [Tutor] handling of tabular data

2005-10-09 Thread Pujo Aji
Hi Frank,   you can use Numeric.py it is also powerfull to handle averages, min, max, matrix algebra, etc.. see: http://www.pfdubois.com/numpy/   You just need to use a list.   If your data is big and you need more power I suggest you use database like mysqldb for python. It is also fun to combine

Re: [Tutor] handling of tabular data

2005-10-09 Thread Alan Gauld
> with the little I know about classes, I assume that then I would have > a list of class instances as representation of my tabular data > but given such a list of class instances, i would still need for > loops to get to e.g. the minimal value of a certain attribute in all > classes in that list.

Re: [Tutor] handling of tabular data

2005-10-08 Thread Danny Yoo
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Frank Hoffs�mmer wrote: > I often find myself writing python programs to compute averages, min, > max, top10 etc of columns in a table of data In these programs, I always > capture each row of the table in a tuple the table is then represented > by a list of tupl

[Tutor] handling of tabular data

2005-10-08 Thread Frank Hoffsümmer
Hello I often find myself writing python programs to compute averages, min, max, top10 etc of columns in a table of data In these programs, I always capture each row of the table in a tuple the table is then represented by a list of tuples computing averages, min, max and other meta-information i