[RFC] store inventory in tab-separated file

[Alexander Belchenko]

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Dmitry Vasiliev пишет:
> 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.

Oh. I was wrong.
Anyway, my implementation use only splitting string by TAB.
It should not be horribly slow.

Alexander
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