Jan-17-2018, 08:37 AM
Hi,
First post, don't know if there's somewhere for an intro but they always seem somewhat trite on internet forums (fora?) anyway. Hi anyway.
I have a small project that I'm undertaking. I have already written this many tears ago using MSaccess and visual basic within MSAccess so it was effectively a self contained MsAccess application. It's not by any means complex, and I'm sure the methodology used before would work again, but a couple of pointers in respect of Python would be useful
Briefly what the the program does is look for a post code (zip code) in a csv address file. It then uses the postcode to look up a routing code which is appended to that record, and thereafter the file is sorted by the routing code.
The method I used previously was to make extensive use of SQL within MsAccess, and using visual basic for manipulation and repetitive tasks, like cycling through fields to find something resembling a postcode. I have MariaDB and I have a working python connection to it, but am not too familiar with Python.
Within Access I imported the file to be sorted into a new table though that doesn't seem too viable a proposition within MariaDB since the table needs to be defined in advance. Are there any more suitable strategies I could use within a MariaDB and Python combination? Does this sound like a viable methodology, or would there be a means of doing this solely within Python (data files can be very big, 40,000 records etc)? Any thoughts are welcome before I expend too much time teaching myself Python/MAriaDB.
Many thanks.
Rob
First post, don't know if there's somewhere for an intro but they always seem somewhat trite on internet forums (fora?) anyway. Hi anyway.
I have a small project that I'm undertaking. I have already written this many tears ago using MSaccess and visual basic within MSAccess so it was effectively a self contained MsAccess application. It's not by any means complex, and I'm sure the methodology used before would work again, but a couple of pointers in respect of Python would be useful
Briefly what the the program does is look for a post code (zip code) in a csv address file. It then uses the postcode to look up a routing code which is appended to that record, and thereafter the file is sorted by the routing code.
The method I used previously was to make extensive use of SQL within MsAccess, and using visual basic for manipulation and repetitive tasks, like cycling through fields to find something resembling a postcode. I have MariaDB and I have a working python connection to it, but am not too familiar with Python.
Within Access I imported the file to be sorted into a new table though that doesn't seem too viable a proposition within MariaDB since the table needs to be defined in advance. Are there any more suitable strategies I could use within a MariaDB and Python combination? Does this sound like a viable methodology, or would there be a means of doing this solely within Python (data files can be very big, 40,000 records etc)? Any thoughts are welcome before I expend too much time teaching myself Python/MAriaDB.
Many thanks.
Rob
