On 05/07/2017 13:49, Thomas Nyberg wrote:
On 07/05/2017 02:14 PM, Sam Chats wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions. I would've not used pickle had I been aware about
other tools while developing this.
I was thinking about migrating to sqlite3. How about that? And yes, I need more
comprehanesive documentation.
Will work on that soon.
Thanks,
Sam Chats
Personally I prefer text formats until I have some need to switch. That
way I can look at files directly instead of needing to unpickle or to
load up sqlite or whatever. It just seems like overkill when it's
unnecessary. Depending upon how you are updating data, using sqlite or
some database might make sense, but if you're just reading in or writing
out entire text files, then I'd just recommend skipping sqlite and
instead just writing to the files directly.
There's been some discussion recently on the Computing At School forums
here in the UK where at least one teacher explained that they taught
pickle in the way it's being used here essentially because it's really
simple: you just through your object at .dump/.load and it's done.
Otherwise you have to roll your own serialisation of some sort. Which
might be simple but is yet another thing to introduce into an already
busy curriculum.
TJG
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