On 8/29/2011 11:29 AM Cranky Frankie said...
I'm trying to decide what would be better:
'better' is subjective. On the one hand, you have a monolithic python program that consolidates data and program into a single source; on the other hand, you have separation of logic and data.
Most often, and particularly for larger on-going projects, I'll use the second approach as the infrastructure to support it is already in place.
However, I am rather fond of certain monolithic solutions as both maintenance and deployment are much easier. TiddlyWiki and Monmotha's firewall script come to mind.
- reading the huge quote file (hundreds of entries, two strings, author and quotation) in each time the program starts - loading the quotes into an array in the program
I don't imagine you'd see much difference here. The content must be read from disk and organized in a python structure regardless.
I'd like to be able to add new quotes easily, so that is a factor as well. I'm satisfied to use a dialog box, I don't need a GUI at this point so no tkinter (yet).
There's not much difference either in the 'launch a program' or 'load a program' approaches to adding quotes.
For learning purposes, I think I'd advise a complete newbie to start with the monolithic approach and build up and out from there.
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