[Tutor] better looping construct for replacing elements in file?

[Alan Gauld]

On 02/02/12 21:44, Joel Goldstick wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Brett Longworth<blongworth at whoi.edu>  wrote:
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. The little voice in my head was yelling, "Easier with
>> SQL!" the entire time, but I'm trying to learn Python.
>
> Even so, you would be learning how to do some simple sql things in
> python.  It comes with sqlite3 so you don't even need to have mysql on
> the machine
>

And you can run SQLite as an in-memory database so its even fast for 
temporary tables like this! (assuming you have enough RAM!)

HTH,

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Alan G
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