Hello, this is my first post. I'm glad a place like this exists. I'm coming from primarily a shell scripting background and it was suggested I should learn python because the two are closely related. I've been studying python now for about a week and as of right now, I'm not really seeing many similarities. Anyway, to learn python as fast as I can, I thought I'd just dive in and try to write a program but I'm stuck on the first step. The program I'm writing comes from this website:
http://www.meetup.com/NOVA-Python/events/232629865/ I am not a member of the group and have not been to any meetings yet but here's the homework assignment I'm working on... *1. Find the total number of births in each year. If you can, find the total for both male and female births. Plot your results. * I've downloaded the files and put them in a directory and here's the script I wrote to tackle the first part of the question, the total number of births in a year: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash FILE_DIR=/home/ronw/my_python_journey/names for i in `ls $FILE_DIR` do OUTPUT=`awk -F, 'BEGIN{OFS=" ";} {sum+=$3} END {print FILENAME, sum}' $FILE_DIR/$i | awk -F'[^0-9]*' '{print $2, $3}'` echo $OUTPUT done -------------------------------------------------------------------- Question: How would I write a similar program and achieve awk like functionality in python? Thanks _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
