Greetings Pythoneers --
Some of us over on edu-sig, one of the community actives, have been brainstorming around this Rich Data Structures idea, by which we mean Python data structures already populated with non-trivial data about various topics such as: periodic table (proton, neutron counts); Monty Python skit titles; some set of cities (lat, long coordinates); types of sushi. Obviously some of these require levels of nesting, say lists within dictionaries, more depth of required. Our motivation in collecting these repositories is to give students of Python more immediate access to meaningful data, not just meaningful programs. Sometimes all it takes to win converts, to computers in general, is to demonstrate their capacity to handle gobs of data adroitly. Too often, a textbook will only provide trivial examples, which in the print medium is all that makes sense. Some have offered XML repositories, which I can well understand, but in this case we're looking specifically for legal Python modules (py files), although they don't have to be Latin-1 (e.g. the sushi types file might not have a lot of romanji). If you have any examples you'd like to email me about, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a good address. Here's my little contribution to the mix: http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/python/gis.py Kirby Urner 4D Solutions Silicon Forest Oregon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
