Hi, Am Do, den 26.08.2004 schrieb David Siedband um 23:39:

I'm trying to read data from a csv on a remote machine and get it into MySQL.

recordEnergyReading is a zSQL in the same directory as this python script.

def powerData(self,REQUEST): import csv import urllib inFile = "".join(urllib.urlopen('http://www.davisenergy.com/zeh_data/ A042304.DAT').readlines()) from cStringIO import StringIO filebody=StringIO(inFile.read()) reader = csv.DictReader(filebody,("recdate", "recTime", "TAO", "TA1z", "TA2z", "TA1C", "TA2C", "INSOL", "EACz", "EFANz", "EHSEz", "EPV", "GASFz", "DMP", "EAC1c", "EAC2c", "EFAN1", "EFAN2", "EHSEc", "GASFc")) for row in reader: self.recordEnergyReading(row)

The zSQL works fine when tested on it's own. How do I locate the problem?

raise NotEnoughContextError() ;-) well... I think I understand you have a .csv file somewhere on another server, now you have an external method which is supposed to fetch the remote file and parse it, right? Now you want to use the ZSQL method recordEnergyReading() in the same container as the external method to insert data. Still getting right? You did not tell us the errors you get! My thinking: the row is like a dictionary? So row is something like {"recdate":"01.01.1970", ... } ? And your ZSQL method uses the keys you wrote above as parameters? like: INSERT INTO blah (recdate, recTime, ...) VALUES (<dtml-sqlvar recdate type=string>, <dtml-sqlvar recTime type=string> ... ) ? So you just change your call from self.recordEnergyReading(row) to: self.recordEnergyReading(**row) see your python manual on what this means :-) Regards Tino Wildenhain