thanks for all of the responses, has been really helpful
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 19:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> >
> > > Should we be promoting use of the format method
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 19:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
>
> > Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
> > the % operator? % is deprecated now.
>
> It most certainly is not.
>
> There are no plans to
On 17/05/2012 10:35, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
the % operator? % is deprecated now.
It most certainly is not.
There are no plans to deprecate the string % operat
On 5/17/2012 3:27 AM, Russel Winder wrote:
Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
the % operator? % is deprecated now.
I for one do not like seeing % deprecated. Why? It is not broken, and
IMHO the easiest to use of all formatting options.
--
Bob Gailer
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On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 08:27:07AM +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> Should we be promoting use of the format method in strings rather than
> the % operator? % is deprecated now.
It most certainly is not.
There are no plans to deprecate the string % operator any time in the
foreseeable future. It m
On 17/05/12 08:39, Russel Winder wrote:
Interesting, or not, the "Big Data" people are rapidly realizing that
data mining and SQL are mutually incompatible.
After many years working with big data mining teams/apps my considered
opinion is use SAS or one of its peers! It costs money but it wor
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 16:03 +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
[...]
> I agree, but in this case SQL seemed like the most likely fit of the
> ones I knew. however:
Which raises the point that the best design of a given problem in a
given context is the one that is most comprehensible to the people
directly
On Wed, 2012-05-16 at 12:57 -0400, Joel Goldstick wrote:
[...]
> I think the OP is just learning and this thread may have gotten of track.
I didn't realize discussion of immediate side issues and alternatives,
and allowing people to exchange information was OT in this mailing list.
Also of course,
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 16/05/12 12:27, Russel Winder wrote:
>
>>> As a matter of interest why?
>>
>>
>> Because there are alternatives that need to be investigated on a per
>> problem basis for the best database.
>
>
> I agree, but in this case SQL seemed like the
On 16/05/12 12:27, Russel Winder wrote:
As a matter of interest why?
Because there are alternatives that need to be investigated on a per
problem basis for the best database.
I agree, but in this case SQL seemed like the most likely fit of the
ones I knew. however:
SQL
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 19:14 +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
> On 15/05/12 10:36, Russel Winder wrote:
> > ...queries passed over it then year a database it the
> > right thing -- though I would probably choose a non-SQL database.
>
> As a matter of interest why?
Because there are alternatives that need
On 15/05/12 10:36, Russel Winder wrote:
...queries passed over it then year a database it the
right thing -- though I would probably choose a non-SQL database.
As a matter of interest why?
And what kind of alternative would you use?
It seems to me that SQL is ideally suited(*) to this type of
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 23:38 -0400, bob gailer wrote:
[...]
> I would set up a SQLite database with a table of 4 numeric columns:
> year, month, rainfall, firearea
> Use SQL to select the desired date range and do the max and avg
> calculations:
> select year, avg(firearea), max(rainfall) from tab
On 15/05/12 07:12, questions anon wrote:
Thanks Bob,
sql does appear to be very simple although I cannot get the queries to
work. Can you suggest a site that has examples for what I am trying to
do. I have done some googling but it has not been successful so far.
You can try my tutorial topic o
Thanks Bob,
sql does appear to be very simple although I cannot get the queries to
work. Can you suggest a site that has examples for what I am trying to do.
I have done some googling but it has not been successful so far.
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:38 PM, bob gailer wrote:
> On 5/14/2012 10:1
On 5/14/2012 10:16 PM, questions anon wrote:
I am completely new to dictionaries and I am not even sure if this is
what I need to use.
I have a text file that I would like to run summary stats on
particular months, years and climate indices (in this case the climate
indices are rainfall and fir
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