[Tutor] my pet project (long)

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 29-Jan-2002 Andrzej Kolinski wrote:
> 
> I am a total newbie surrounded by Python books and tutorials. Before I
> became the one (this was not difficult :-)) I tried to learn a bit of C (I
> am glad I did not). I found Python and this mailing are the best things for
> what I dream to do.
> 
> This is my pet project. I would like to write a python program that allows
> me to maintain  players' ranking for our bridge club. I run weekly
> duplicate games and use a designated program to score these games. Among
> other things it creates text files (see examples attached) with the game
> results. I want to use the players' Pct (second column) and Names (last
> column) to do my calculations.
> 

This is quite a complicated project for someone just starting out.  It sounds
like what you really need is to learn how to write simple programs in python
and build up to this.

Break the problem into small pieces and try to solve them one at a time.