Help with Iteration

[Aaron "Castironpi" Brady]

On Oct 17, 10:44 pm, Chris McComas <mccomas.ch... at gmail.com> wrote:
> i have a python script that is computing ratings of sports teams.
>
> what i'm trying to do is setup an iteration for the rating so that the
> python program recomputes the rating if any of the value difference is
>
> > 0.00005. it's common for sports ratings to run such iterations...
>
> any tips, pointers on where to look on how to do this the best way?
>
> right now i'm getting the ratings from the file, limiting my results
> to 1 entry, the biggest number, if it's > 0.00005, then i want it to
> compute the ratings again. if it is < 0.00005 then it just goes on to
> the next step in the file.
>
> thnx in advance.

Can you cut and paste a few lines?  Otherwise I assume your file looks
like this:

A 0.00001
B 0.00003
C 0.00006

You interpret the file like this:

name= A, rating= 0.00001
name= B, rating= 0.00003
name= C, rating= 0.00006
--recompute--

new values:
name= A, rating= 0.00001
name= B, rating= 0.00002
name= C, rating= 0.00004

new file:
A 0.00001
B 0.00002
C 0.00004

Am I right so far?