Hi Kevin Is all your data in one big text file? Or do you have to type it in by hand and want some type of script to do the calcluations?
I have to run right now. I'll be back in a few hours and can give you some more help then, if no one else has offered. Paul On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:18:15PM -0500, kevin parks wrote: > From: kevin parks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:18:15 -0500 > To: tutor@python.org > Cc: Kevin Parks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Tutor] Time script help sought! > > I am kind of in a bit of a jam (okay a big jam) and i was hoping that > someone here could give me a quick hand. I had a few pages of time > calculations to do. So, i just started in on them typing them in my > time calculator and writing them in by hand. Now i realize, that i > really need a script to do this because: > > 1. It turns out there are hundreds of pages of this stuff. > 2. I have to do something similar in again soon. > 3. By doing it by hand i am introducing wonderful new errors! > 4. It all has to be typed up anyway (which means weeks of work and even > more typos!) > > The input would like so: > > Item_1 TAPE_1 1 00:23 8:23 > > Item_2 TAPE_1 2 8:23 9:41 > > Item_3 TAPE_1 3 9:41 10:41 > Item_3 TAPE_1 4 10:47 11:19 > Item_3 TAPE_1 5 11:21 11:55 > Item_3 TAPE_1 6 11:58 12:10 > Item_3 TAPE_1 7 12:15 12:45 Defect in analog tape sound. > Item_3 TAPE_1 8 12:58 24:20 Defect in analog tape sound. > > Item_4 TAPE_1 9 24:33 > Item_4 TAPE_1 10 25:48 > Item_4 TAPE_1 11 29:48 > Item_4 TAPE_1 12 31:46 > Item_4 TAPE_1 13 34:17 Electronic sounds. > Item_4 TAPE_1 14 35:21 > Item_4 TAPE_1 15 36:06 > Item_4 TAPE_1 16 37:01 37:38 > > These are analog tapes that were digitized (on to CD or a digital tape) > that have now been exported as individual files that are meant to be > part of an on-line audio archive. The timings refer to the time display > on the CD or digital tape. The now all have to adjusted so that each > item starts at 0.00 since they have all been edited out of their > context and are now all individual items that start at 00:00. So Item_1 > which was started at 00:23 on the tape and ended at 8:23 needs to have > 23 seconds subtracted to it so that it says: > > Item_1 TAPE_1 1 00:00 08:00 > > Item_2 TAPE_1 2 08:23 09:41 > > would change to: > > Item_2 TAPE_1 2 00:00 01:18 > > etc. > > but as always you may notice a wrinkle.... some items have many times > (here 6) indicated: > > Item_3 TAPE_1 3 9:41 10:41 > Item_3 TAPE_1 4 10:47 11:19 > Item_3 TAPE_1 5 11:21 11:55 > Item_3 TAPE_1 6 11:58 12:10 > Item_3 TAPE_1 7 12:15 12:45 Defect in analog tape sound. > Item_3 TAPE_1 8 12:58 24:20 Defect in analog tape sound. > > This is all a single sound file and these separate times mark where > there was a break, defect, or edit in the individual item. These have > to be adjusted as well to show where these events would appear in the > new sound file which now starts at 00:00. > > Item_3 TAPE_1 3 00:00 01:00 ---- > Item_3 TAPE_1 4 01:00 01:38 ---- > Item_3 TAPE_1 5 01:38 02:14 ---- > Item_3 TAPE_1 6 02:14 02:29 ---- > Item_3 TAPE_1 7 02:29 03:04 Defect in analog tape sound. > Item_3 TAPE_1 8 03:04 14:39 Defect in analog tape sound. > > Further wrinkles: Some have start and end times indicated, some only > start times. I suppose that the output would ideally have both.... some > have comments and others don't ... and I need these comments echo-ed or > since i probably need to make a database or table eventually non > comments just have some place holder. > > I'd have a lot of similar type calculations to do... I was hoping and > praying that some one here was feeling generous and show me the way and > then, of course i could modify that to do other tasks... Usually i am > happy to take the long road and all but i'll be honest, i am in a big > jam here and this huge task was just dumped on me. I am frankly a > little desperate for help on this and hoping someone is feeling up to > spoon feeding me a clear modifiable example that works. Sorry..... > > cheers, > > kevin > k p 8 'at ' m a c 'dot' c o m > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************ _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
