xlrd and cPickle.dump

[patrick.waldo at gmail.com]

>FWIW, it works here on 2.5.1 without errors or warnings. Ouput is:
>2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
>0.6.1

I guess it's a version issue then...

I forgot about sorted!  Yes, that would make sense!

Thanks for the input.


On Apr 2, 4:23 pm, patrick.wa... at gmail.com wrote:
> Still no luck:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python24\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework
> \scriptutils.py", line 310, in RunScript
>     exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
>   File "C:\text analysis\pickle_test2.py", line 13, in ?
>    cPickle.dump(Data_sheet, pickle_file, -1)
> PicklingError: Can't pickle <type 'module'>: attribute lookup
> __builtin__.module failed
>
> My code remains the same, except I added 'wb' and the -1 following
> your suggestions:
>
> import cPickle,xlrd, sys
>
> print sys.version
> print xlrd.__VERSION__
>
> data_path = """C:\\test\\test.xls"""
> pickle_path = """C:\\test\\pickle.pickle"""
>
> book = xlrd.open_workbook(data_path)
> Data_sheet = book.sheet_by_index(0)
>
> pickle_file = open(pickle_path, 'wb')cPickle.dump(Data_sheet, pickle_file, -1)
> pickle_file.close()
>
> To begin with (I forgot to mention this before) I get this error:
> WARNING *** OLE2 inconsistency: SSCS size is 0 but SSAT size is non-
> zero
>
> I'm not sure what this means.
>
> > What do you describe as "simple manipulations"? Please describe your
> > computer, including how much memory it has.
>
> I have a 1.8Ghz HP dv6000 with 2Gb of ram, which should be speedy
> enough for my programming projects.  However, when I try to print out
> the rows in the excel file, my computer gets very slow and choppy,
> which makes experimenting slow and frustrating.  Maybe cPickle won't
> solve this problem at all!  For this first part, I am trying to make
> ID numbers for the different permutation of categories, topics, and
> sub_topics.  So I will have [book,non-fiction,biography],[book,non-
> fiction,history-general],[book,fiction,literature], etc..
> so I want the combination of
> [book,non-fiction,biography] = 1
> [book,non-fiction,history-general] = 2
> [book,fiction,literature] = 3
> etc...
>
> My code does this, except sort returns None, which is strange.  I just
> want an alphabetical sort of the first option, which sort should do
> automatically.  When I do a test like>>>nest_list = [['bbc', 'cds'], ['jim', 'ex'],['abc', 'sd']]
> >>>nest_list.sort()
>
> [['abc', 'sd'], ['bbc', 'cds'], ['jim', 'ex']]
> It works fine, but not for my rows.
>
> Here's the code (unpickled/unsorted):
> import xlrd, pyExcelerator
>
> path_file = "C:\\text_analysis\\test.xls"
> book = xlrd.open_workbook(path_file)
> ProcFT_QC = book.sheet_by_index(0)
> log_path = "C:\\text_analysis\\ID_Log.log"
> logfile = open(log_path,'wb')
>
> set_rows = []
> rows = []
> db = {}
> n=0
> while n<ProcFT_QC.nrows:
>     rows.append(ProcFT_QC.row_values(n, 6,9))
>     n+=1
> print rows.sort() #Outputs None
> ID = 1
> for row in rows:
>     if row not in set_rows:
>         set_rows.append(row)
>         db[ID] = row
>         entry = str(ID) + '|' + str(row).strip('u[]') + '\r\n'
>         logfile.write(entry)
>         ID+=1
> logfile.close()
>
> > Also, any good reason for sticking with Python 2.4?
>
> Trying to learn Zope/Plone too, so I'm sticking with Python 2.4.
>
> Thanks again