Question

I ran this program on Linux with Python 2.6.2 and it ran fine returning me with decimal values but when I run it on Python 2.7.2 on Windows it does not work and just gives a blank space for a while and then a memory error but I can’t figure out why..I need it to run on Windows its a program to calculate stock equity (ROE). Thanks.

The CSV file needed to run the program is here.
.

import csv

csvname = raw_input("Enter csv name: ")

sbuxfile = csv.reader(open(csvname), delimiter=',', quotechar='|')

# List of Data
row5, row8, row3, row7, avgequity, roe1, roe2 = ([] for i in range(7))

count = 0
# Grab data and numerical values from CSV.
for row in sbuxfile:
  count += 1
  if count == 8:     
     row8 = row
  elif count == 5:   
     row5 = row 
  elif count == 3:   
     row3 = row 
  elif count == 7:   
     row7 = row


a = 1

# Perform calculations for average equity and ROE.
while a < 8 :
   if a == 1:
     avgequity.append(round(float(row8[a]),2))
     roe1.append(float(row5[a]) / float(row8[a]))
     roe2.append((float(row5[a]) / float(row3[a])) * (float(row3[a]) / float(row7[a])) * (float(row7[a]) / float(row8[a]))) 
   else:    
     avgequity.append(round(float((row8[a]),2) + float(row8[a-1]))/2)
     roe1.append(float(row5[a]) / float(row8[a]))
     roe2.append((float(row5[a]) / float(row3[a])) * (float(row3[a]) / float(row7[a])) * (float(row7[a]) / ((float(row8[a]) + float(row8[a-1]))/2)))     
     a+=1 

print "\nAverage equity is " + str(avgequity) + "\n"
print "ROE method 1 is " + str(roe1) + "\n"
print "ROE method 2 is " + str(roe2)

Answer 1

I added a few modifications to your script.
It works fine on Python 2.7 for Windows.
Here’s the code:

import csv

csvname = raw_input("Enter csv name: ")

sbuxfile = csv.reader(open(csvname), delimiter=',', quotechar='|')
# List of Data
row5, row8, row3, row7, avgequity, roe1, roe2 = ([] for i in range(7))

count = 0
# Grab data and numerical values from CSV.
for row in sbuxfile:
  count += 1
  if count == 8:     
     row8 = row
  elif count == 5:   
     row5 = row 
  elif count == 3:   
     row3 = row 
  elif count == 7:   
     row7 = row


a = 1

# Perform calculations for average equity and ROE.
while a < 8 :
   if a == 1:
     avgequity.append(round(float(row8[a]),2))
     roe1.append(float(row5[a]) / float(row8[a]))
     roe2.append((float(row5[a]) / float(row3[a])) * (float(row3[a]) / float(row7[a])) * (float(row7[a]) / float(row8[a])))
     a+=1   #added this line
   else:    
     avgequity.append(round(float(row8[a]),2) + float(row8[a-1])/2) #rewrote this line as it had an error
     roe1.append(float(row5[a]) / float(row8[a]))
     roe2.append((float(row5[a]) / float(row3[a])) * (float(row3[a]) / float(row7[a])) * (float(row7[a]) / ((float(row8[a]) + float(row8[a-1]))/2)))     
     a+=1 

print "\nAverage equity is " + str(avgequity) + "\n"
print "ROE method 1 is " + str(roe1) + "\n"
print "ROE method 2 is " + str(roe2)

The output was :
Average equity is [2071.11, 3505.7650000000003, 3325.3650000000002, 3273.6400000000003, 3398.375, 4187.76, 5197.549999999999]

ROE method 1 is [0.12812453225565035, 0.15742791098732495, 0.23651124740462906, 0.2532005689900426, 0.2944854035689894, 0.1283120464917753, 0.2573271287452037]

ROE method 2 is [0.12812453225565038, 0.17126298080734237, 0.21680660107401206, 0.2613058810726202, 0.29811440335236883, 0.1466466034500227, 0.2814118207249569]