[Baypiggies] Help with code

[Ben Gutierrez]

Hey Alden,

Use the int function.  E.g., int('4').

If you're not confident that all the  strings are actual numbers,
you'll need to catch exceptions:

try:
    value = int(some_string)
except ValueError:
    value = 0

Later!

Ben

On Nov 26, 2007 11:34 AM, Alden Meneses <aldenm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you to everyone for your comments and for the extra eyeballs on this
> line of code.....
>
>
> elif line(-1) == 'F' and line(1) != ' ':
>
> I blame that on stuffing myself with turkey. :)
>
> Got a new question - How do you convert text to integer? I want to sum
> charges by group and area?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alden
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 11/23/07, Drew Perttula <drewp at bigasterisk.com> wrote:
> > Alden Meneses wrote:
> > > f = open('H:\xxxx\xxxx\xxxx\9-7-07')
> > > #File is a report that summarizes each account by account group and
> > > service area then has the details for each account and Totals before the
> > > next group of accounts.
> > > edit = ["GRP", "AREA", "CHARGES"]
> > > ptype = "NULL"
> > > area = "NULL"
> > > for line in f:
> > >     if line[:12] == 'ACCOUNT GROUP':
> > >         ptype = line[16:]                                   # The
> > > account group starts on the 16th character of the line
> > >     elif line[:11] == 'SERVICE AREA':
> > >         area = line[11:]                                    #
> > > The service area starts on the 11th character of the line
> > >     elif line(-1) == 'F' and line(1) != ' ':
> > >         edit.append(ptype,area,line[56:66])        # I wanted to append
> > > the edit stack with the variables collected above.
> > > f.close()
> > > print edit
> >
> > The others are correct about line[-1], but in some of these cases you
> > could use string methods:
> >
> >    if line.startswith('ACCOUNT GROUP'):
> > ...
> >    elif line.startswith('SERVICE AREA'):
> > ...
> >    elif line.endswith('F') # less important
> >
> > str.startswith is easier to read and maintain, since it's got an english
> > name and you don't have to count the length of your test string.
> >
> >
> >
> > Then, edit.append takes only one argument. I'd guess you wanted to make
> > a list of 3-tuples:
> >
> >   edit = [("GRP", "AREA", "CHARGES")]  # len-1 list of one tuple
> > ...
> >   edit.append((ptype, area, line[56:66]))  # append one item to list
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Your last line is probably just for testing, but you should be aware of
> > the pretty-printing library:
> >
> > from pprint import pprint
> > ...
> > pprint(edit)
> >
> > [('GRP', 'AREA', 'CHARGES'),
> > ('piggies', 'bay', '$99.99'),
> > ('drew', 'bay', '$10.00')]
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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