simple text parser?

[Alex Martelli]

Brandon J. Van Every wrote:

> Alex Martelli wrote:
>>
>> Developing a program under each of two platforms you previously didn't
>> know is no doubt a good way to compare several characteristics of
>> those platforms.  Out of curiosity -- are you relying on Usenet help,
>> rather than a manual, for the C# version, too?
> 
> Not exactly.  I have 2 books on C#, but they don't talk about parsing
> except
> via XML.  At some point I will ask about C# parsers, but probably not
> until I get stuck on the Python way of doing things.

I still don't understand why you need parsing for your expressed
purpose (saving data to disk and restoring them, with no effort) --
surely C# has its own object-serialization modules already implemented
for your use, just like Python has cPickle and Java its own serialization
library modules.


Alex