A python question...

[Jerry McBride]

On Tuesday 04 May 2004 10:47 pm, Andrew L. Gould wrote:

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> I've been able to do some very useful scripts in Python with very little
> experience:
>
> a) a user-side crosstab query script for postgresql
>
> b) batch processing a directory of healthcare electronic remittance
> advices into a relational data model of delimited text files; with
> derived primary keys to prevent processing a file twice
>
> c) converting a space delimited file, with text enclosed in double
> quotation marks, to a tab delimited file, leaving text value spaces
> unchanged
>
> Fun stuff.
>

I almost pissed myself reading that last line. Yup, it can get very tedious at 
times and boreing as hell... but then you get to play on the weekends.

Cheers.

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