ooopy: newbie cannot get basic functionality to work

2006-12-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hi list, I am new to python and old to coding (as in I did it a long time ago). I've got a task that cries out for a scripted solution -- importing chunks of ASCII data dumps from a point-of-sale system into an openoffice.org spreadsheet. What a great chance for me to get my coding skills back

Re: ooopy: newbie cannot get basic functionality to work

2006-12-09 Thread Paul Watson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, I am new to python and old to coding (as in I did it a long time ago). I've got a task that cries out for a scripted solution -- importing chunks of ASCII data dumps from a point-of-sale system into an openoffice.org spreadsheet. What a great chance

Re: ooopy: newbie cannot get basic functionality to work

2006-12-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:42:40PM -0600, Paul Watson wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, I am new to python and old to coding (as in I did it a long time ago). I've got a task that cries out for a scripted solution -- importing chunks of ASCII data dumps from a point-of-sale

Re: ooopy: newbie cannot get basic functionality to work

2006-12-09 Thread John Machin
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi list, I am new to python and old to coding (as in I did it a long time ago). I've got a task that cries out for a scripted solution -- importing chunks of ASCII data dumps from a point-of-sale system into an openoffice.org spreadsheet. What a great chance for

Re: ooopy: newbie cannot get basic functionality to work

2006-12-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 09:30:32PM -0800, John Machin wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: o = OOoPy (infile='/home/andrew/monthly.ods') Traceback (most recent call last): File stdin, line 1, in ? TypeError: 'module' object is not callable OK, so that tells you that