> this worked for me fine.
I'm glad you solved tyour problem.
But you have done so in an extremely inefficient way, both inefficient
in the way it uses computer resources - both CPU and storage, and
inefficient in the way it uses your time - way more code than you need.
If you only need an answ
this worked for me fine.
#Author - Chris Castillo
#Created 4/19/09
#Program 6
import time
#Open and read text file with student information
gradesfile = open("grades.dat", "r")
time_acc = time.asctime()
#Ask user for student ID to lookup student information
sought_id = raw_input("Please enter a
"Scott SA" wrote
May have been a bad assumption on my part as I envisioned pickling a
dict. and that just got too complicated.
A pickled dict?
That would be a shelve mebbe?
PS. My email is acting up, did my prev. message actually make it to
the list?
Yes, I saw it just after sending m
On Apr 20, 2009, at 12:59 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
You might want to store the data in a dictionary keyed by ID number?
I had thought of suggesting this, but it appeared that the OP was
going to re-iterate the file each time he wished to query the CSV.
May have been a bad assumption on my par
Le Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:59:15 +0100,
"Alan Gauld" s'exprima ainsi:
> So I'd change the structure to be like this(pseudo code)
>
> students = dict() # empty dict
> for line in gradesfile:
> line = line.split(',')
> s = Student()
> s.id = line[0]
> s.lastname = line[1]
> etc...
Le Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:59:15 +0100,
"Alan Gauld" s'exprima ainsi:
> > #Open and read text file
> >
> > gradesfile = open("grades.dat", "r"
> > for lines in gradesfile:
> >lines = lines.split(",")
> >identifier = lines[0]
> >lastname = lines[1]
> >firstname = lines[2]
> >major
"Chris Castillo" wrote
I am trying to open a text file and read multiple lines containing the
following:
745777686,Alam,Gaus,CIS,15,30,25,15,5,31,15,48,70,97
888209279,Anderson,Judy,Math Ed,14,30,30,13,11,30,16,18,58,72
You could use the CSV module for this, although a basic
for loop is fin
Hi Chris,
On Apr 19, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Chris Castillo wrote:
I am trying to open a text file and read multiple lines containing the
following:
745777686,Alam,Gaus,CIS,15,30,25,15,5,31,15,48,70,97
888209279,Anderson,Judy,Math Ed,14,30,30,13,11,30,16,18,58,72
This is CSV format data (comma sep
so how would I check to see if the student number entered by the user
matches one of the student numbers in the file and then display that
students info?
On 4/19/09, R. Alan Monroe wrote:
>
>> gradesfile = open("grades.dat", "r
>> for lines in gradesfile:
>> [snip]
>> That's what I have so far bu
> gradesfile = open("grades.dat", "r
> for lines in gradesfile:
> [snip]
> That's what I have so far but I have a feeling I shouldn't use a for
> loop.
Actually a for loop seems like the right tool for this job, assuming
you really _do_ want to process every line in the file.
Alan
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