[RFC] store inventory in tab-separated file

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Alexander Belchenko пишет:
> Jari Aalto пишет:
>> Alexander Belchenko <bialix at ukr.net> writes:
>>
>>> I wrote draft implementation of new serializer format that use tab-separated
>>> text instead of XML. John Meinel often says that our weakness point is
>>> inventory. So I make some experiment to rewrote our serializer.

I like the idea and even thought about it some time ago. I guess 
record-based format is also may give some performance benefits.

>> Just to comment the separator character:
>>
>> * TAB is not the best choice, because it's invisible and easily get's
>>   corrupted with space
>>
>> Perhaps just plain space, colon, semicolon or any other
>> standard-visible character?
> 
> This file is not intended to be editable by user.
> So I say 'no'. TAB is deliberated choice.

But for CSV files parsing you can use csv builtin module which can be 
easy to use and faster.

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