On 08/09/2011 02:01 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
> On 8/9/2011 4:49 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
>> On Aug 9, 2011, at 3:44 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
>>
>>> Talking with a non-Fox person today who wants to get into programming.
>>> She thinks Python is definitely the way she wants to go. Reminded me of
>>> you guys here!
>> with file("my_big_text_file") as myfile:
>> for line in myfile:
>> # Do whatever you need to do with that line
>
> That *is* very nice!
>
> This isn't a ridiculously complicated app; it's just time consuming
> because it's dealing with gazillion fields in multiple record layouts
> across multiple file types. This would be a good academic project for
> rewrite in Python (just after I get the production issue settled).
>
>
Michael: I do a lot of stuff like that. Importing very large files
with multiple record types in one table. I write the conversion program
in python - create a python.exe executable - and call it from Foxpro
with the ! /N command.
Totally cool, especially since I would really like to spend 100% of my
time in Python.
Prior to that I always used low level file processing.
Jeff
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