thanks for all of the responses, has been really helpful
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 19:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> >
> > > Should we be promoting use of the format method
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 19:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
>
> > Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
> > the % operator? % is deprecated now.
>
> It most certainly is not.
>
> There are no plans to
On 17/05/2012 10:35, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
the % operator? % is deprecated now.
It most certainly is not.
There are no plans to deprecate the string % operat
On 5/17/2012 3:27 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
the % operator? % is deprecated now.
I for one do not like seeing % deprecated. Why? It is not broken, and
IMHO the easiest to use of all formatting options.
--
Bob Gailer
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
> the % operator? % is deprecated now.
It most certainly is not.
There are no plans to deprecate the string % operator any time in the
foreseeable future. It m
On 17/05/12 08:39, Russel Winder wrote:
Interesting, or not, the "Big Data" people are rapidly realizing that
data mining and SQL are mutually incompatible.
After many years working with big data mining teams/apps my considered
opinion is use SAS or one of its peers! It costs money but it wor
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 16:03 +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
[...]
> I agree, but in this case SQL seemed like the most likely fit of the
> ones I knew. however:
Which raises the point that the best design of a given problem in a
given context is the one that is most comprehensible to the people
directly
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 12:57 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote:
[...]
> I think the OP is just learning and this thread may have gotten of track.
I didn't realize discussion of immediate side issues and alternatives,
and allowing people to exchange information was OT in this mailing list.
Also of course,
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 16/05/12 12:27, Russel Winder wrote:
>
>>> As a matter of interest why?
>>
>>
>> Because there are alternatives that need to be investigated on a per
>> problem basis for the best database.
>
>
> I agree, but in this case SQL seemed like the
On 16/05/12 12:27, Russel Winder wrote:
As a matter of interest why?
Because there are alternatives that need to be investigated on a per
problem basis for the best database.
I agree, but in this case SQL seemed like the most likely fit of the
ones I knew. however:
SQL
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 19:14 +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 15/05/12 10:36, Russel Winder wrote:
> > ...queries passed over it then year a database it the
> > right thing -- though I would probably choose a non-SQL database.
>
> As a matter of interest why?
Because there are alternatives that need
On 15/05/12 10:36, Russel Winder wrote:
...queries passed over it then year a database it the
right thing -- though I would probably choose a non-SQL database.
As a matter of interest why?
And what kind of alternative would you use?
It seems to me that SQL is ideally suited(*) to this type of
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 23:38 -0400, bob gailer wrote:
[...]
> I would set up a SQLite database with a table of 4 numeric columns:
> year, month, rainfall, firearea
> Use SQL to select the desired date range and do the max and avg
> calculations:
> select year, avg(firearea), max(rainfall) from tab
On 15/05/12 07:12, questions anon wrote:
Thanks Bob,
sql does appear to be very simple although I cannot get the queries to
work. Can you suggest a site that has examples for what I am trying to
do. I have done some googling but it has not been successful so far.
You can try my tutorial topic o
Thanks Bob,
sql does appear to be very simple although I cannot get the queries to
work. Can you suggest a site that has examples for what I am trying to do.
I have done some googling but it has not been successful so far.
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:38 PM, bob gailer wrote:
> On 5/14/2012 10:1
On 5/14/2012 10:16 PM, questions anon wrote:
I am completely new to dictionaries and I am not even sure if this is
what I need to use.
I have a text file that I would like to run summary stats on
particular months, years and climate indices (in this case the climate
indices are rainfall and fir
I am completely new to dictionaries and I am not even sure if this is what
I need to use.
I have a text file that I would like to run summary stats on particular
months, years and climate indices (in this case the climate indices are
rainfall and fire area, so not actualy climate indices at all).
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