On 2006-10-25, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > >> Right. The above handles that case, I believe. > > Oh, you're right! It's amazing how this went from a simple, > two-line method to a big mess of error-checking. :)
>From Kernighan & Pike, _The Practice of Programming_ (ISBN 0-201-61586-X): This completes our C version [of a csv reading library]. It handles arbitrarily large inputs and does something sensible even with perverse data. The price is that it is more than four times as long as the first prototype and some of the code is intricate. Such expansion of size and complexity is a typical result of moving from prototype to production. (It's a useful book, especially for a hobbyist programmer. Though there's not much Python code in it, pretty much all the advice inside is applicable to writing Python code.) -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
