Help with language, dev tool selection

[Fredrik Lundh]

vasilijepetkovic at yahoo.com wrote:

> I have a flat text file, 30000 records, each record has two columns,
> the columns are tab separated.
>
> The file looks like this (approximately)
>
> Sarajevo 431104-133111

(when did they move sarajevo to italy?)

> Mostar 441242-133421
> Zagreb 432322-134423

here's a straightforward Python solution:

    HEADER = "This page displays longitude-latitude information"
    SUBHEADER = "Grad"

    for line in open("datafile.txt"):

        town, latlong = line.split()
        lat, long = latlong.split("-")

        f = open(town + ".html", "w")
        f.write(HEADER + "\n")
        f.write(SUBHEADER + "\n")
        f.write(town + "\n")
        f.write(long + " " + lat + "\n")
        f.close()

    # end

tweak as necessary.  see the Python tutorial for help:

    http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html

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