Little direction please Python MySQL

[Ethan Furman]

len wrote:
> Hi all;

[snip]

> Here is my problem.  I need to start doing this in the really world at
> my company converting some older cobol system and data to python
> programs and MySQL.  I have gotten past packed decimal fields and
> various other little tidbits.  My problem is the data files aren't
> little three of four field files but Customer File with 98 fields
> etc.  I understand building dictionaries and building with zip and I
> have even seen a reference to using __setattr__ in an empty class but
> I'm having a hard time moving past the little code snippts to real
> code.

[snip]

> Thanks Len

I've never had the (mis?)fortune to work with COBOL -- what are the 
files like?  Fixed format, or something like a dBase III style?  I 
presume also that you only need access to them in COBOL format long 
enough to transfer them into MySQL -- true?

~ethan~