Another Iteration...

Some time you have to throw a small script together to fix an issue. When you deal with third party data that's manually generated sometimes you have to take what they give you.

I had to determine the start the field positions in a fixed record length text file by the position of the double quotes in the file. After some research I conclude to use a regular expression with an iterator.


import re

text = 'Some Long" Record with " lots of '
pattern = re.compile('"')
print [m.start() for m in pattern.finditer(text)]



DFW Pythoneers Meeting June 8, 2013

16 Python Enthusiasts showed up at the Gravity Center for the meeting. This will be the last meeting at the Gravity Center, a new meeting space will need to be found.

We discussed Python and other resources for young programmers. John discussed Cocos2d, Greg demoed Python koans, and Jeremy show how to install Pelican and deploy a static site on Amazon S3.