April 29, 2013
6:54 a.m.
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:29:35 -0700 Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
Not only is this inconsistent with the rest of Python*, but it's going to be a PITA for data storage/retrieval:
datastore = dbf.Table('storage.dbf', 'event_name C(50); date D; season SEASON')
def retrieve_record(...): result = [] for field_type, field_data in record: result.append(field_type(field_data))
I've never seen any kind of "data retrieval" which works like that. Would you care to explain us the context? Regards Antoine.