[Tutor] if you're interested in the code thus far...

[Clayton Kirkwood]

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!On 25/10/14 23:46, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
!> __author__ = 'SYSTEM'
!
!You are still setting __author__ which is a bit suspect.
!Leave double underscores to python.

This is something being created when I started with this file.

!
!> import string
!
!You are still importing string twice, and you don't use it anywhere that
!I can see.
!
!> #Pricing                Dividends
!>
!> raw_table = ('''
!
!I assume this will eventually come from a file?
!You are not really going to store it with your code?
!If you are then using a string is pointless and causing you lots of
!extra work.
!
!> a: Ask    y: Dividend Yield
!> b: Bid     d: Dividend per Share
!> b2: Ask (Realtime)           r1: Dividend Pay Date
!> b3: Bid (Realtime)            q: Ex-Dividend Date
!...
!> s7: Short Ratio
!> ''')
!
!You don't need parens as well as triple quotes.
!The quotes alone are sufficient.

Thanks.

!
!> import re, string
!
!second string import... And you don't seem to be using re either?
!

Used them before and then removed the need for them.

!> col_position, code, description = 0, [], [] key_name =
!> raw_table.replace('\t','\n')
!
!I assume this is because you don't control the file format? Since
!otherwise you would just use newlines in the file, right?

Correct. I cut and pasted the data. Not going to change (probably) no sense
in putting it in a file

!
!>
!> for each_line in  key_name.splitlines():
!>      if ':' in each_line:
!>          c, d = each_line.split(':')
!>          code.append(c)
!>          description.append(d.strip())
!>          print( col_position, code[col_position],
!description[col_position])
!>          col_position += 1
!
!You could use enumerate in the for loop and that would set the
!col_position value for you:
!
!for col_position,each_line in enumerate(key_name.splitlines()):

Good info, but I tried it and the debugger indicated an IndexError:
list.index out of range.
Interesting because when I cursor over the various items on the line, they
seem fine: col_position was 1
However, I don't think that this solution will work for me, because there
are lines with no : these being category type lines such as Date toward the
top of the data. But I now have new info on enumerate.

!
!
!> output_line_len = 120
!> current_output_pos = index = 0
!> description_output_string = code_output_string = ''
!> for description_position, code_position in zip(description, code):
!
!Why not just put the codes and descriptions in tuples when you read them
!in the loop above? Why use zip? In other words where you do
!
! >          c, d = each_line.split(':')
! >          code.append(c)
! >          description.append(d.strip())
!
!Why not just join the pair there:
!
! >          c, d = each_line.split(':')
!            values.append((c,d))
!
!or even just
!
! >          values.append(each_line.split(':'))
!

Uh, because I didn't know about it....:<)))

!It seems as if you are splitting the values into two lists only to zip
!those lists together again in the next loop?
!
!>      description_position_len = len(description_position)
!>      current_output_pos += description_position_len
!>
!>      if current_output_pos >= output_line_len:
!>          print(description_output_string)
!>          print(code_output_string)
!>          code_output_string=description_output_string=''
!>          current_output_pos=-1   #start new line
!>
!>      description_output_string += '{:^}|'.format(description_position)
!>
!>      code_output_string+='{0:^{1}}|'.format(code_position,
!> description_position_len)
!>
!>      current_output_pos+=1  #takes care of '|' at end of string
!

This has led to a problem, however. How do I determine if a value is in one
of the tuples:
Key in [a, word], [key, word]

I thought there might be a comprehension or something like a list.key or
something.

Thanks,

Clayton 


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