using python to automate data translation process from eprime to SPSS

[Kyle]

Hello, 
I am currently struggling with trying to automate my data translation 
process from eprime to SPSS.  I am not using emerge because I need to 
create individual spss data files for each of my subjects.  I have written 
sytax that automates the translation from the edat output (tab-separated) 
to an SPSS data file but I need to figure out a way to circumvent e-dataAid 
so I can automate the whole process and reduce the chance of any errors 
during the process.  I was planning on using python so that I could have 
the user select the files that they want to convert to SPSS and then it 
does it automatically.  From what I gathered from python help forums is 
that I need to parse the raw data txt document into a tab-separated file.  
Is there a way to do this or documentation how to do this somewhere?  The 
workflow would be something like: raw data txt file --> tab separated --> 
spss syntax (it reads from a list file I created in spss) --> spss data 
file.  I think the main spot I am stuck at is parsing the data from the raw 
file so I can circumvent edataAid.  From there it seems like it might be 
somewhat straightforward.  Thank you in advance for any help you can 
provide.  If you have any tips for the python part of this process that 
would be appreciated as well, but I know the group is for e-prime and do 
not expect help with that.
Thank you,
-Kyle


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