Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: > I do not see any connection, really, between what you describe above > and your desire for static type-checking expressed elsewhere. When I > was regularly doing analysis of empirical data files, I learned > (sometimes the hard way, as you describe above) to **ALWAYS** run > preliminary checks of all fields through the entire file
Right. And if the file is large enough that even parsing all the records to check the fields takes hours, well, that's where I'm at. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
