On 12 Set, 14:39, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > A consideration of other storage formats such as HDF5 might
> > be appropriate:
>
> >http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/whatishdf5.html
>
> > There are, of course, HDF5 tools available for Python.
>
> PyTablescame up within th
On Sep 12, 4:34 am, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12 Sep, 08:30, Steven D'Aprano
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Which is why I previously said that XML was not well suited for random
> > access.
>
> Maybe not.
No, it's not. Element trees are, which if I just would have said
or
On 12 Sep, 08:30, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Which is why I previously said that XML was not well suited for random
> access.
Maybe not. A consideration of other storage formats such as HDF5 might
be appropriate:
http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/whatishdf5.html
There are, of cou
On Sep 12, 1:30 am, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:40:01 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> > On 12 Sep 2008 03:37:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in
> > comp.lang.python:
>
> >> I'm pretty sure you're wrong. XML can be use
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:40:01 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2008 03:37:51 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in
> comp.lang.python:
>
>
>> I'm pretty sure you're wrong. XML can be used for serialization, but
>> that doesn't mean it is only sequential
On Sep 11, 10:37 pm, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:20:41 -0700, Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady wrote:
> > XML is the wrong word for the example I was thinking of (as was already
> > pointed out in another thread). XML is by definition sequential.
>
> I'm pretty su
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:20:41 -0700, Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady wrote:
> XML is the wrong word for the example I was thinking of (as was already
> pointed out in another thread). XML is by definition sequential.
I'm pretty sure you're wrong. XML can be used for serialization, but that
doesn't me
On 11 Sep, 19:31, "Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> An acquaintance suggests that defragmentation would be a useful
> service to provide along with memory management too, which also
> requires an index.
I presume that you mean efficient access to large amounts of data in
On Sep 11, 5:35 am, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11 Sep, 10:34, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > And as I said before, the only use case for *huge* XML files I've ever
> > seen used in practice is to store large streams of record-style data;
>
> I can imagine that t
On Sep 11, 2:40 am, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:59:35 -0700, Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady wrote:
> > On Sep 10, 5:24 am, Steven D'Aprano
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:20 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> >> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
On 11 Sep, 10:34, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> And as I said before, the only use case for *huge* XML files I've ever
> seen used in practice is to store large streams of record-style data;
I can imagine that the manipulation of the persistent form of large
graph structures might b
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
I'm no longer *claiming* anything, I'm *asking* whether random access to
a 4GB XML file is something that is credible or useful. It is my
understanding that XML is particularly ill-suited to random access once
the amount of data is too large to fit in RAM.
An XML file
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:59:35 -0700, Aaron \"Castironpi\" Brady wrote:
> On Sep 10, 5:24 am, Steven D'Aprano
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:20 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>> >> You've created a solution to a problem which (probably) only aff
On Sep 10, 5:03 am, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So at best (i.e. if it actually makes any sense; I didn't read it),
> this is an ANNouncement of a pre-alpha piece of code. ANN posts rarely
> attract replies, even when they are about production/stable software.
To be fair, at least
On Sep 9, 10:03 pm, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 9, 5:59 pm, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a
> > module I want to write and I will take the time to explain it.
> > I think it's a "cool idea" that a lot of p
On Sep 10, 5:24 am, Steven D'Aprano
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:20 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> > Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> >> You've created a solution to a problem which (probably) only affects a
> >> very small number of people, at least judging by your use-cases. Wh
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:26:20 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
>> You've created a solution to a problem which (probably) only affects a
>> very small number of people, at least judging by your use-cases. Who
>> has a 4GB XML file
>
> Getting 4GB XML files from, say, logging
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
You've created a solution to a problem which (probably) only affects a
very small number of people, at least judging by your use-cases. Who has
a 4GB XML file
Getting 4GB XML files from, say, logging processes or databases that can
render their output as XML is not tha
On Sep 9, 5:59 pm, castironpi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a
> module I want to write and I will take the time to explain it.
> I think it's a "cool idea" that a lot of people, forgiving the
> slang, could benefit from.
>
> (snipped)
>
>
On Sep 9, 5:58 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:59:19 -0700, castironpi wrote:
> > I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
> > want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
> > "cool idea"
On Sep 9, 5:44 pm, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> castironpi wrote:
> > I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
> > want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
> > "cool idea" that a lot of people, forgiving the slang, could benefit
>
On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:59:19 -0700, castironpi wrote:
> I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
> want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
> "cool idea" that a lot of people, forgiving the slang, could benefit
> from. What are its flaws?
castironpi wrote:
I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
"cool idea" that a lot of people, forgiving the slang, could benefit
from. What are its flaws?
A user has a file he is using either 1/ to
I will try my idea again. I want to talk to people about a module I
want to write and I will take the time to explain it. I think it's a
"cool idea" that a lot of people, forgiving the slang, could benefit
from. What are its flaws?
A user has a file he is using either 1/ to persist binary data
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