On Jan 9, 2:19 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings Pythoneers -- > > Some of us over on edu-sig, one of the community actives, > have been brainstorming around this Rich Data Structures > idea, by which we mean Python data structures already > populated with non-trivial data about various topics such > as: periodic table (proton, neutron counts); Monty Python > skit titles; some set of cities (lat, long coordinates); types > of sushi. > > Obviously some of these require levels of nesting, say > lists within dictionaries, more depth of required. > > Our motivation in collecting these repositories is to give > students of Python more immediate access to meaningful > data, not just meaningful programs. Sometimes all it takes > to win converts, to computers in general, is to demonstrate > their capacity to handle gobs of data adroitly. Too often, > a textbook will only provide trivial examples, which in the > print medium is all that makes sense. > > Some have offered XML repositories, which I can well > understand, but in this case we're looking specifically for > legal Python modules (py files), although they don't have > to be Latin-1 (e.g. the sushi types file might not have a > lot of romanji). > > If you have any examples you'd like to email me about, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a good address. > > Here's my little contribution to the > mix:http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/gis.py > > Kirby Urner > 4D Solutions > Silicon Forest > Oregon
I would think there was more data out there formatted as Lisp S- expressions than Python data-structures. Wouldn't it be better to concentrate on 'wrapping' XML and CSV data- sources? - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
