[dbfpy-devel] [ dbfpy-Feature Requests-1901734 ] Delete Fields

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Feature Requests item #1901734, was opened at 2008-02-26 00:32
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Delete Fields

Initial Comment:
Not sure if anyone is working on this still, but it would be useful to be able to delete fields from a dbf file. I looked through the source files and only saw addFields and delete records methods...no delete fields. 

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>Comment By: alexander smishlajev (a1s)
Date: 2008-02-27 06:39

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there is no way to delete a piece of data in the middle of a file other
than copy all remaining data to a new file.

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Comment By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Date: 2008-02-26 23:17

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I was hoping to write a python script that i could run on hundreds of
files, removing the undesired fields from each file. Instead of copying all
the data I want into a new file...for one file, yea, that's fine, but not
looping over hundreds.

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Comment By: alexander smishlajev (a1s)
Date: 2008-02-26 09:24

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.addField() works only while the dbf is empty (no records added) and
serves to create the structure from scratch.  what would be the purpose of
field deletion in that context?

what you need is just create new file without unwanted field and copy data
- that's pretty trivial.

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