On 12 Set, 14:39, Aaron \Castironpi\ Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
A consideration of other storage formats such as HDF5 might
be appropriate:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/whatishdf5.html
There are, of course, HDF5 tools available for Python.
PyTablescame up within the past few weeks
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:40:01 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On 12 Sep 2008 03:37:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in
comp.lang.python:
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. XML can be used for serialization, but
that doesn't mean it is only sequential data. XML
On Sep 12, 1:30 am, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:40:01 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On 12 Sep 2008 03:37:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] declaimed the following in
comp.lang.python:
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. XML can be used for
On 12 Sep, 08:30, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which is why I previously said that XML was not well suited for random
access.
Maybe not. A consideration of other storage formats such as HDF5 might
be appropriate:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/whatishdf5.html
There are, of course,
On Sep 12, 4:34 am, Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12 Sep, 08:30, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which is why I previously said that XML was not well suited for random
access.
Maybe not.
No, it's not. Element trees are, which if I just would have said
originally...
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:59:35 -0700, Aaron \Castironpi\ Brady wrote:
On Sep 10, 5:24 am, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:20 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You've created a solution to a problem which (probably) only affects
a very
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I'm no longer *claiming* anything, I'm *asking* whether random access to
a 4GB XML file is something that is credible or useful. It is my
understanding that XML is particularly ill-suited to random access once
the amount of data is too large to fit in RAM.
An XML file
On 11 Sep, 10:34, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And as I said before, the only use case for *huge* XML files I've ever
seen used in practice is to store large streams of record-style data;
I can imagine that the manipulation of the persistent form of large
graph structures might be
On Sep 11, 2:40 am, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:59:35 -0700, Aaron \Castironpi\ Brady wrote:
On Sep 10, 5:24 am, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:20 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You've created
On Sep 11, 5:35 am, Paul Boddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11 Sep, 10:34, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And as I said before, the only use case for *huge* XML files I've ever
seen used in practice is to store large streams of record-style data;
I can imagine that the
On 11 Sep, 19:31, Aaron \Castironpi\ Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
An acquaintance suggests that defragmentation would be a useful
service to provide along with memory management too, which also
requires an index.
I presume that you mean efficient access to large amounts of data in
the sense
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:20:41 -0700, Aaron \Castironpi\ Brady wrote:
XML is the wrong word for the example I was thinking of (as was already
pointed out in another thread). XML is by definition sequential.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. XML can be used for serialization, but that
doesn't mean
On Sep 11, 10:37 pm, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:20:41 -0700, Aaron \Castironpi\ Brady wrote:
XML is the wrong word for the example I was thinking of (as was already
pointed out in another thread). XML is by definition sequential.
I'm pretty sure you're
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You've created a solution to a problem which (probably) only affects a
very small number of people, at least judging by your use-cases. Who has
a 4GB XML file
Getting 4GB XML files from, say, logging processes or databases that can
render their output as XML is not
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:20 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You've created a solution to a problem which (probably) only affects a
very small number of people, at least judging by your use-cases. Who
has a 4GB XML file
Getting 4GB XML files from, say, logging
On Sep 10, 5:24 am, Steven D'Aprano
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:20 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You've created a solution to a problem which (probably) only affects a
very small number of people, at least judging by your use-cases. Who
has a
On Sep 9, 10:03 pm, George Sakkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 9, 5:59 pm, castironpi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a
module I want to write and I will take the time to explain it.
I think it's a cool idea that a lot of people,
On Sep 10, 5:03 am, George Sakkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So at best (i.e. if it actually makes any sense; I didn't read it),
this is an ANNouncement of a pre-alpha piece of code. ANN posts rarely
attract replies, even when they are about production/stable software.
To be fair, at least some
I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
cool idea that a lot of people, forgiving the slang, could benefit
from. What are its flaws?
A user has a file he is using either 1/ to persist binary data
castironpi wrote:
I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
cool idea that a lot of people, forgiving the slang, could benefit
from. What are its flaws?
A user has a file he is using either 1/ to
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:59:19 -0700, castironpi wrote:
I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
cool idea that a lot of people, forgiving the slang, could benefit
from. What are its flaws?
[snip
On Sep 9, 5:44 pm, Larry Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
castironpi wrote:
I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
cool idea that a lot of people, forgiving the slang, could benefit
from.
On Sep 9, 5:58 pm, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:59:19 -0700, castironpi wrote:
I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
cool idea that a
On Sep 9, 5:59 pm, castironpi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a
module I want to write and I will take the time to explain it.
I think it's a cool idea that a lot of people, forgiving the
slang, could benefit from.
(snipped)
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