Dear Group, Thanks for letting me join the PhillyPug! I am writing a program which among other things scrapes a number from a Yahoo finance web page. I end up...
Chris, "".join(z[:-1]) This uses the join method of the string "" (empty), and uses the values from the variable z as the input. The square braces allow you to...
Dear Shawn, Wow, fast and simple! Thank you! C On 8/5/08 7:38 , "Shawn Milochik" <shawn.milo@...> wrote: Chris, "".join(z[:-1]) This uses the join method...
If the list contains text characters in varying places, you can do something like this to extract a float: x = ['2','5','.','3','5','M'] y = float(''.join([i...
Hi Kevin, Another helpful answer! Thank you. Chris On 8/5/08 8:18 , "Kevin Hill" <khill@...> wrote: If the list contains text characters in varying places,...
... Since he's looking for numeric things, it's probably safe to use the `in' operator y = float(''.join([i for i in x if i in '0123456789.-'])) However,...
Dear All, I am writing data to an Excel spreadsheet using the CSV module. Is it possible to write data, close the file, then later re-open the file and write...
If you want to append to a file, open it with mode "ab" instead of "wb". Using the "w" mode truncates the file. See the description of open() here: ...
Hi Kevin, Many thanks. I missed the append 'a' mode when reading the python docs. Problem solved. Chris On 8/23/08 7:00 AM, "Kevin Hill" <khill@...> wrote:...
Hello everyone! I am currently trying to teach myself Python and for the most part I am doing alright with it. However, I was trying to do an example from a...
Here is the key to all you seek: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html ... -- Turnabout is fair play... http://uath.org/english.php?news=26...
... Please do read the above, which is a great resource. The short answer to your question, however, is that you should cut and paste the section of code...
Hi, I have 350 stock tickers in a spreadsheet file (stocklist.csv). I am trying to generate a list of symbol and price per share using the yahoo API in yahoo...
You'll need to look at threads more carefully, and learn about the `join` method. You'll want to do something along the lines of: threads = [] for i in...
Hi Andrew, It helps a great deal. I had seen the join() method in other thread examples and misunderstood it. I thought it was a method from the string object...
Hi Andrew: The following checks 350 stock symbols in 4 seconds. Not bad considering the non-threaded program takes 33 seconds. It works very well now thanks to...
Hi, George. So, what are you looking for in a language? What language(s) have you used already? I think Python is a fantastic language, but there are a lot of...
Botonomy LLC is a small and growing Philadelphia-area IT consulting company founded in 2005 which specializes in Python-based solutions. PyGuys.com provides an...
Prentice Hall sent me a copy of Python Fundamentals (http:// www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0137143419). It includes 7 hours of video training. Is...
Hey Andrew, I think I could benefit from the training. I am primarily a .net developer and have not been successful in getting python into my organization....
Greetings: I'd like to find out if there would be interest in a Fall 2009 conference/working group to examine the use of multithreaded approaches (and...
Great, I'll wait a few days to see how many people are interested. I can pick up a few people from computer or possible Neuro-Bio-Engineering students but the...
The idea is to get a few people together and share cross discipline expertise (Computer-Neurology-Biology) then publish the conference proceedings. I'd like...
This is some new conference out in Portland, OR. Someone can go for free, and if anyone is interested, I'll put it in a text file and write a script that uses...
Hi, I'm with the Central PA Linux User Group (CPLUG) and we are running another Central PA Open Source Conference (CPOSC) this year on October 17, 2009 in...
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