On Jun 9, 5:48 am, Mark Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Cerutti wrote: > > The underlying problem, of course, is the archaic flat-file > > format with fixed-width data fields. Even the Department of > > Education has moved on to XML for most of it's data files, > > :( > > I'm writing a small app, and was wondering the best way to store data. > Currently the fields are separated by spaces. I was toying with the idea > of using sqlite, yaml or json, but I think I've settled on CSV. Dull, > but it's easy to parse for humans and computers.
Yup, humans find that parsing stuff like the following is quite easy: "Jack ""The Ripper"" Jones","""Eltsac Ruo"", 123 Smith St",,Paris TX 12345 Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
