[RFC] store inventory in tab-separated file

[Dmitry Vasiliev]

Alexander Belchenko пишет:
> Dmitry Vasiliev пишет:
>> Alexander Belchenko пишет:
>>> Jari Aalto пишет:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
> 
> I cannot agree with you about csv module.
> I don't think it will be faster: it's the pure python module,
> it uses regular expressions to parse input,
> it more complicated because it's general purpose.
> So I'm pretty sure that it cannot be faster of my
> strictly specialized implementation.

Actually, csv.reader is implemented in C, but only profiling can tells 
which implementation is faster.

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