Chris Delgado wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been studying python tutorials and have a couple beginning python > books that I have worked through. I have a very specific project in mind > and I want to ask a couple questions. The project in question is this: > > I am making a Hand History converter for online poker players. This > takes the textual record of how a hand played and turns into a more > readable format suitable for posting at various websites where people > discuss how the hand was played. Id like to start with the converter > working for one particular online poker site (every site formats their > hand histories somewhat differently) and expand it so that it can > recognize the site a hand history came from and format accordingly.
I would pick one input format and work on a program that reads it and generates some kind of events for everything significant that happens. At first the events could be just print statements, later they can reformat the data to the required output format. From your description it sounds like there is no need to create an internal data format that holds all the data for a hand. A simple loop to read an event, parse the event and output it in the new format might be enough. It would help a lot to see some sample data. For a project of this (small) scale I don't do much design ahead of time, I let the design emerge from the code as I solve the problem. I would start by writing the simplest program that could possibly work to convert a single format. When that is working then look at what is needed to add a format. This will probably involve some refactoring, introducing functions or classes that are specific to your problems. When you have two or three formats working you should have a tool set that will make subsequent formats easier. If the data format is complex a parsing library like pyparsing might be helpful. But without seeing some data and trying to parse it there is no way to know. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
