Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-17 Thread Lawrence D'Oliveiro
len wrote: Files are fixed format no field delimiters, fields are position and length records are terminated by newline. Assuming no COMPUTATIONAL fields, it should be easy enough to split each line up into fixed-length pieces, e.g. assuming a simple example 01 Sample-Record. 02

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-17 Thread Tim Chase
Files are fixed format no field delimiters, fields are position and length records are terminated by newline. Assuming no COMPUTATIONAL fields, it should be easy enough to split each line up into fixed-length pieces, e.g. assuming a simple example 01 Sample-Record. 02 Field-1 pic

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-17 Thread len
On Nov 17, 3:24 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand wrote: len wrote: Files are fixed format no field delimiters, fields are position and length records are terminated by newline. Assuming no COMPUTATIONAL fields, it should be easy enough to split each line

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-17 Thread len
On Nov 17, 3:24 am, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] central.gen.new_zealand wrote: len wrote: Files are fixed format no field delimiters, fields are position and length records are terminated by newline. Assuming no COMPUTATIONAL fields, it should be easy enough to split each line

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-17 Thread len
On Nov 17, 5:52 am, Tim Chase [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Files are fixed format no field delimiters, fields are position and length records are terminated by newline. Assuming no COMPUTATIONAL fields, it should be easy enough to split each line up into fixed-length pieces, e.g. assuming a

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-16 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: len a écrit : Hi all; I am looking for a little direction in moving from novice python MySQL to real world processing. I can connect to MySQL databases and have performed most of the various select, create, update, insert, etc given the examples in the various books

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-16 Thread len
On Nov 15, 4:41 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:41:17 -0800, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: len wrote:         snip Files are fixed format no field delimiters, fields are position and length

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-15 Thread Ethan Furman
len wrote: On Nov 13, 7:32 pm, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: len wrote: Hi all; [snip] Here is my problem. I need to start doing this in the really world at my company converting some older cobol system and data to python programs and MySQL. I have gotten past packed decimal

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-14 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
len a écrit : Hi all; I am looking for a little direction in moving from novice python MySQL to real world processing. I can connect to MySQL databases and have performed most of the various select, create, update, insert, etc given the examples in the various books and internet tutorials not

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-14 Thread len
On Nov 13, 7:32 pm, Ethan Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: len wrote: Hi all; [snip] Here is my problem.  I need to start doing this in the really world at my company converting some older cobol system and data to python programs and MySQL.  I have gotten past packed decimal fields and

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-14 Thread len
On Nov 14, 4:19 am, Bruno Desthuilliers bruno. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: len a écrit : Hi all; I am looking for a little direction in moving from novice python MySQL to real world processing. I can connect to MySQL databases and have performed most of the various select, create,

Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-13 Thread len
Hi all; I am looking for a little direction in moving from novice python MySQL to real world processing. I can connect to MySQL databases and have performed most of the various select, create, update, insert, etc given the examples in the various books and internet tutorials not to many

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-13 Thread Steve Holden
len wrote: Hi all; I am looking for a little direction in moving from novice python MySQL to real world processing. I can connect to MySQL databases and have performed most of the various select, create, update, insert, etc given the examples in the various books and internet tutorials

Re: Little direction please Python MySQL

2008-11-13 Thread Ethan Furman
len wrote: Hi all; [snip] Here is my problem. I need to start doing this in the really world at my company converting some older cobol system and data to python programs and MySQL. I have gotten past packed decimal fields and various other little tidbits. My problem is the data files