Running Sum script

Juli Dolzhenko juli.dolzhenko at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 15:30:35 EDT 2009


On Sep 4, 2:52 pm, "Rami Chowdhury" <rami.chowdh... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Could you let us know what kind of error you are getting?
>
> I don't know if this is your error, but this line won't run:
>
> > readData = formisanoOpen.readLines()
>
> Since Python is case-sensitive, you would need a lower-case 'l' in
> 'readlines()' -- perhaps that would solve your problem?
>
>
>
> On Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:26:06 -0700, Jul <sneaky... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sep 4, 2:21 pm, Stephen Fairchild <someb... at somewhere.com> wrote:
> >> Jul wrote:
> >> > hello,
>
> >> > I have a .txt file that is in this format --
>
> >> > 12625
> >> > 17000
> >> > 12000
> >> > 14500
> >> > 17000
> >> > 12000
> >> > 17000
> >> > 14500
> >> > 14500
> >> > 12000
> >> > ...and so on...
>
> >> > i need to create a python script that will open this file and have a
> >> > running sum until the end of file.
>
> >> Untested:
>
> >> with open("numbers.txt", "r") as f:
> >>    print sum(int(x) for x in f)
> >> --
> >> Stephen Fairchild
>
> > thats what i have so far --
>
> > #!/usr/bin/python
>
> > import os.path
>
> > #open up the file
> > formisanoOpen = open("formisano_num.txt", "r")
>
> > #read in all the data into a list
> > readData = formisanoOpen.readLines()
>
> > #set up a sum
> > sum = 0;
>
> > #begin a loop
> > for trial in readData:
>
> > #the next line is indented (YA doesn't indent)
> > sum += int(trial)
>
> > #loop is over, so unindent
> > #report the sum
> > print sum
>
> > end
>
> > but it doesnt want to run for some reason....
>
> --
> Rami Chowdhury
> "Never attribute to malice that which can be attributed to stupidity" --
> Hanlon's Razor
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in the terminal i get a very strange "permission denied" error that
might not have anything to do with the code. I checked permissions for
the file and they are set to "read and write" so, again, I am really
not sure what going wrong.



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