Documentation clarification for read/write

tw391819

In Read CSV (and maybe one or two other places),..

"How Does service.read_file(format='csv') Work?:

The above method call opens the reject_data file and creates a dictionary for each line in the file(besides the first). The top line of reject_data will be the names for all the dictionaries, and all subsequent lines will be values."

This seems wrong, I suspect that there is a dictionary for each Column in the file (not each line), using the stock symbol (or perhaps another attribute) as the key.

I've used dictionaries in C# (and hash tables in Perl) in the same fashion, using stock symbol as the key.

tdraughon

There is an example of writing to a file in Base Working Strategies.CQ_Basic_Bull_Momentum

The code is

self.sOutString = "{0},sellSignal,{1},{2}".format(service.time_to_string(service.system_time), self.symbol, bv_0[0])
print self.sOutString
service.write_file(self.filename, self.sOutString)

shayne

Take a look at pages:
- service.read_file() https://app.cloudquant.com/#/glossary/143
- service.write_file() https://app.cloudquant.com/#/glossary/148

Make more sense?

tw391819

Thank you!