On 2021-09-21, Pete Forman <petef4+use...@gmail.com> wrote: > CSV is quite good as a lowest common denominator exchange format. I say > quite because I would characterize it by 8 attributes and you need to > pick a dialect such as MS Excel which sets out what those are. XML and > JSON are controlled much better. You can easily verify that you conform > to those and guarantee that *any* conformant parser can read your > content. XML is more powerful in that repect than JSON in that you can > define and enforce schemas. In your case the fuel name, UOM, etc. can be > validated with standard tools. In JSON all that checking is entirely > handled by the consuming program(s).
That's not true. You can use "JSON Schema" to create a schema for validating JSON files, and there appear to be at least four implementations in Python. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
