--- Steve Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- 7stud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Bejeezus. The description of groupby in the docs > is > > a poster child > > for why the docs need user comments. >
Regarding the pitfalls of groupby in general (even assuming we had better documentation), I invite people to view the following posting that I made on python-ideas, entitled "SQL-like way to manipulate Python data structures": http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2007-May/000807.html In the thread, I don't really make a proposal, so much as a problem statement, but my radical idea is that lists of dictionaries fit the relational model perfectly, so why not allow some kind of native SQL syntax in Python that allows you to manipulate those data structures more naturally? ____________________________________________________________________________________Luggage? GPS? Comic books? Check out fitting gifts for grads at Yahoo! Search http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=graduation+gifts&cs=bz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
