[Baypiggies] scientific notation: string to int

[Rami Chowdhury]

On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:59:57 Bryce Verdier wrote:
> Hey Keith,
> 
> The best I can do for string is the line from my original posting(client
> data, NDA, I'm sure you understand):
> 
> b1021384-6633-4756-b3e1-c36d34c1dfd2, clientname_001,Thu Dec  2 00:00:00
> UTC 2010,2.96116E+11,0,0, Thu Dec  2 00:00:00 UTC 2010,577078067
> 20,15228831373,80966857300,

Well, we already know that string works :S Could you put the setting of 
self.size in a try/except block, and print out the string that's causing the 
ValueError?

> I will say that in the file there are 135 lines in the files. So it's
> not like there is a lot data to deal with. I wonder if I should move
> back to 2.7.
> 
> the code is still being worked on, so don't laugh to hard (constructive
> critisims are welcomed though) ;)
> #!/usr/bin/python3
> 
> import sys
> import re
> from optparse import OptionParser
> 
> class client(object):
>      def __init__(self, name, size):
>          self.name = name
>          self.size = float(size)
>          self.east_coast = bool(re.search("_E", name))
>          self.trial = bool(re.search("TR_", name))
>          self.demo = bool(re.search("_Demo", name))
>          self.zetta = bool(re.search("zetta|Zetta", name))
> 
>      def get_size(self):
>          return str(self.size)
> 
>      def get_name(self):
>          return str(self.name)

I'm by no means an expert but getters and setters don't strike me as 
particularly Pythonic -- perhaps properties are more so?

> 
> def read_file(filename):
>      file_data = {}
> 
>      with open(filename, 'r') as f:
>          for lines in f:
>              split_lines = lines.split(',')
>              file_data[split_lines[1]] = split_lines[3]
> 
>      return file_data
> 
> if __name__ == "__main__":
> 
>      file1_clients = {}
>      file2_clients = {}
>      file1_class_clients = []
>      file2_class_clients = []
> 
>      usage = "%prog [options]"
>      parser = OptionParser(usage=usage)
>      parser.add_option("-f", "--first", dest="first",
>          help="Older file first, builds table from here.")
>      parser.add_option("-s", "--second", dest="second",
>          help="New file, used for calculating the difference.")
> 
>      (options,args) = parser.parse_args()
> 
>      if not options.first or not options.second:
>          print("The file argument (-f) is nessacary to run this
> program.\n") parser.print_help()
>          sys.exit(1)
> 
>      file1_clients = read_file(options.first)
>      file2_clients = read_file(options.second)
> 
>      for x,v in file1_clients.items():
>          file1_class_clients.append(client(x,v))
> 
>      for x,v in file2_clients.items():
>          file2_class_clients.append(client(x,v))
> 
>      for x in file1_class_clients:
>          print(x.get_name() + ":" + x.get_size())
> 
> On 12/09/2010 01:44 PM, Keith Dart wrote:
> > === On Thu, 12/09, Bryce Verdier wrote: ===
> > 
> >> ValueError: could not convert string to float: Commercial Max Space
> >> Used
> >> 
> >> 
> >> This is in python 3.1.2 if that matters.
> > 
> > ===
> > 
> > Whoa, that's a new one. Not even Google knows about it. Can you supply
> > the actual string here?
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- Keith Dart
> 
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