[Tutor] help converting a Sequential file to an indexed file

[Dan Howard]

Hi all...
I'm a newbie to Python and would appreciate some advice on the best way to
read a sequential file of data and map the contents to a direct access file.

The sequential file has fixed size fields and each field is separated by
spaces - some fields are filled with spaces as filler.

The first field in each record is the key that I'd like to use to access the
records.

Any comments on best practices here would be most welcome
Thanks
Dan