I wasn't familiar with it prior to this thread, as previously I'd had
the good fortune to use normalized data. I guess more pristine data
environments spoiled me into writing less robust code.
So although I asked what turned out to be the wrong question, I seem
to be getting a consensus answer I'm
Rob Andrews wrote:
> Attempting to massage these into files I can process has involved a
> lot of "throw-away" scripting, and I've caught myself doing some
> really questionable things with basic data structures, leading to my
> original question. Dictionary key errors have been the most common
> h
At my current day job, I'm handed a wild variety of data from
customers, and most of it hasn't been normalized in any reasonable
way. File formats are inconsistent, numbers of fields are randomly
inconsistent with the headers, etc.
Attempting to massage these into files I can process has involved
> I guess I couldn't believe it was that simple. ;-)
now if you had asked about the meanings of *all* exceptions (including
warnings), or perhaps all the SMTP exceptions in smtplib, that would
another matter. ;-)
cheers,
-- wesley
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I guess I couldn't believe it was that simple. ;-)
Sorry for the delayed, bri
