[Tutor] re code

[Alan Gauld]

On 30/09/2023 02:50, Verizon!! via Tutor wrote:
> I have a program coded in visual basic 6.0 and want to code it in python.

That's fine, although for best results be open to new ways of
thinking about the code, don;t try to "translate" the VB to
Python. The idioms are very different.

> Florida and hoping that a python guru is close by.

This is the internet, the whole world is close-by.
The tutor list works by you asking questions (or posting
code for critique) and the list members responding with answers/comments.

> The program takes a comma delimited data file with 1400+ fields 

That's a lot of fields, however the Python csv module can cope.

> pulls out specific fields applies some calcs and formulas and outputs a report

And if the calculations get complex you might also want
to look at SciPy with Pandas(which can also read csv files
and do data crunching and reports etc)


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