Ethan Furman schrieb: > If I knew what First Anormal Form was [...] This refers to the Normal Forms one goes through when normalizing relational databases. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization#Normal_forms)
The First Anormal Form (FAN) means just lumpin' data together in a comma separated string that has to be un-lumped in a program. When there is more than one such program operating on the same FAN-field you can bet they interpret "comma separated" differently, or one wants the comma separated values sorted and gets confused when the other program inserts values in arbitrary order, or, if the one program expects ints, and the other inserts floats, maybe not even using dotted notation, but commas... you get the picture. In summa: FAN is evil. Mick. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list