looping

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:03:09 -0300, Beema shafreen  
<beema.shafreen at gmail.com> escribió:

> hi everbody,
>          i have a file ,
>  A_16_P41851056    1730
> A_16_P03796992    165
> A_16_P21640222    360
> A_16_P21640223    240
> A_16_P03796998    205
> column 2 of my file has values.... 1730, 165,360....
> if i need to put a condition checking that if the first values is greater
> than the next i have to print the column  coresponding to that.....
> say for example 1730 is greater than 165 so i print column1  value
> =A_16_P41851056 , but 165 is lesser that both the 1730 and 360 so i omit  
> the
> value....from column1, and i have to continue the loop till the end of  
> file
> checking which values is greater the both tom and bottom  how do i do
> it.....

An easy way would be to use the csv module to read your data; then compare  
rows [i] and [i+1]

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Gabriel Genellina