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May 22nd, 2005, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Gosling

I take it you felt them worthy of a read, what did you think?

naturally, it's not as good as the original. but it sure worth reading, the books give more details and clear some of the confusion around certain things.

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Originally Posted by Gosling

the finish was a bit anti climatic

I was quite disappointed as well when I finished reading that last book... so many things were left open. it felt like something is missing - or more likely, Frank intended to write whole new Saga. pitty that he passed away so soon!!

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Originally Posted by milk lover

As for cake, cake is good. I like to have it, and then eat it as well. sometimes I will eat it with milk.

lol... you can create infinite reference loop now. but cake is good indeed.

welcome Simon, I hope you won't show your evil side around here! I'm golden dragon thus bound to fight evil.

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May 22nd, 2005, 12:15 PM

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shadow .. if you want to know more about that simongreentroll the following is a link to his persona on devshed
SimonGreenHill
as you can see, he's created several bots to rep him up frequently and increase his postcount while at it ..

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May 22nd, 2005, 01:36 PM

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Damnit, those frickin' bots have given him the lead in the rep race
again... :grrr:

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May 22nd, 2005, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ChiefWigs1982

Damnit, those frickin' bots have given him the lead in the rep race
again... :grrr:

THe solution to your problem may be found on his website. Upload some nonsense languages (you can send an excel document to him) so he has to site there and input the data into his database. You do that, and we might see a lot less of SimonGreenhill round these parts

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May 22nd, 2005, 10:23 PM

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Now, now children. Jealousy is not a nice emotion. Just let it go...

As for the website, please use the funky web data entry system I spent ages writing. I would love someone to enter Klingon for me. Any excel file gets easily converted to SQL via the rather cool Python script I wrote to access spreadsheets via COM. It does, however, require me to boot into windows...

--Evil Simon

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May 23rd, 2005, 01:12 AM

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Originally Posted by EvilSimon

Any excel file gets easily converted to SQL via the rather cool Python script I wrote to access spreadsheets via COM.

Oh lord of lords, I would kill for this program. I spend hours upon hours doctoring up the marketing departments' stupid excel files so that they export into the correct comma delimited form. Not to mention the script that has to take this comma delimited marketing backwash and turn it into tables with columns and all that nice stuff.

May I ask you to kinda describe what you did to accomplish this - I'm not looking for documentation or anything; rather, the gist of what you used and the steps with which the data moves through your program? I know I'm asking for alot and you are busy, but if you do have time, something brief would be super helpful.

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May 23rd, 2005, 01:57 AM

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Sure - I used Python's win32all extensions to access Excel via COM. This is basically it (I'll chop out the data formatting stuff), don't know if you use Python, but should be fairly similar in your lang. of choice.

PHP Code:


		
			
#! /usr/local/bin python
 # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
   
   import win32com.client.dynamic
   import sys, os, codecs, string
   # probably only need the win32com, sys,
   # and os imports. I'm just doing a lot of
   # utf-8 formatting.
   
   #check command line arguments
   numargs = len(sys.argv)
   
   # No file specified, ask for one
   if numargs == 1:
     infile = raw_input('Excel File to Convert: ')
     infile.rstrip
   
   # Input file is specified
   elif numargs == 2:
     infile = sys.argv[1]
   
   # read excel file
   try:
     currentpath = os.path.abspath(infile)
     xl = win32com.client.dynamic.Dispatch("Excel.Application")
     xl.Visible = 0
     xl.Workbooks.Open(currentpath)
     data = xl.Range("A1: G252").Value
     #We get the whole worksheet here, since
     #repeated accesses is S-L-O-W
     xl.Close(SaveChanges=0)
     xl.Quit()
     # Not sure if the Excel is being closed properly,
     # may want to track this down later.
   
   except IOError:
     print "Can't open %s for reading!" % (infile)
     sys.exit(0)
   
   # just some examples..
   # take data -> convert to string, then encode in utf-8
   language = str(data[0][1]).encode('utf-8')
   author = str(data[1][1]).encode('utf-8')

So - we now have the entire first worksheet as data, and can access the fields by data[row][column]. So, B1 is data[0][1]. Basically, I just use this to pull the data from my template spreadsheet, and build a bunch of SQL inserts from it.

--Simon

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May 26th, 2005, 12:40 AM

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proxy rep++ to simon for that program! The logic makes sense (nice commenting).

I wasnt aware that excel has DOM level similar to jscript & such.

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May 27th, 2005, 09:06 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by medianox

proxy rep++ to simon for that program! The logic makes sense (nice commenting).

I wasnt aware that excel has DOM level similar to jscript & such.

I'd help you out, but I'm afraid it wouldn't make any difference here.

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