very high-level IO functions?

[York]

Your are right, a program cannot be smarter than its programmer. However 
I need a program to parse any table-format data files offered by user. R 
offer such a function, I hope python such a function too.

-York


> While it may "attempt" to recognize the types, it in fact cannot
> be more correct than the programmer.  Example:
> 
> data="""0X1E04 111"""
> 
> That "looks" lile a hex and an int.  But wait.  What if it is
> instead two strings?
> 
> In Python you can easily write a class with a interator that can
> read the data from the file/table and return the PROPER data types
> as lists, tuples, or dictionaries that are easy to manipulate.
> 
> -Larry Bates
> 
> York wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>R language has very high-level IO functions, its read.table can read a
>>total .csv file and recogonize the types of each column. write.table can
>>do the reverse.
>>
>>R's MySQL interface has high-level functions, too, e.g. dbWriteTable can
>>      automatically build a MySQL table and write a table of R data into
>>it.
>>
>>Is there any python packages do similar things?
>>
>>
>>-York