On Tue, 04 May 2010 21:54:50 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Michael Gilbert: > > > How about making use of a more standardized set of python features such > > as dictionaries for the database, and possibly storing those to disk > > using pickles > > The actual data is just 44 MB as an SQLite database, so this might > work indeed. I had planned to use smaller pickles stored in an SQLite > database, but it seems that we can avoid that complexity. There's > also enough room for growth; soler is not *that* starved on RAM. > > > or yaml (via the python-yaml package)? > > YAML is evil. Perhaps not in this context, but in general, it really > is.
It's a tradeoff between manually editable/viewable plaintext files vs. obscure binaryish pickles. xml would be the other plainttext alternative, but i think that is more evil. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
