Jon Ribbens <jon+use...@unequivocal.eu> writes: > 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.
Fair point. It has been a while since I looked at JSON schemas and they were rather less mature then. -- Pete Forman -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
