On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:02:04AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Is anyone happy with csv module?: > > J. Clifford Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But the software you are dealing with probably doesn't actually > > need spreadsheets. It just needs digital ledgers. > > I saw someone else in this thread note that they considered CSV to > be a serialization method and not a file format, which I thought was a > brilliant way of looking at things. > > OTOH, from a practical perspective, most of the people I end up interacting > with say "spreadsheet" to mean exactly what you're describing as a > "ledger paper" ... sure they might want to do operations on those cells > in the data, but it isn't key what actual format the data is presented > to them in (XLS, CSV, tab delimited, etc). Oddly enough though, they > almost always say "excel spreadsheet" even though that's not what they > need (rather, its just a side effect of them not realizing there actually > *is* other software that handles these things)
I know, I know. The last place I worked, we had timesheets that were excel spreadsheets, but you actually had to total up your own hours. I added to my job description the role of teaching people how to make the spreadsheet do the work for you. Cheers, Cliff -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
