Packages at Python.org

[Jon Clements]

On Dec 1, 10:32 pm, Ethan Furman <et... at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> kirby.ur... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > With Microsoft abandoning Visual FoxPro come 2015, we have 100K
> > developers
> > jumping ship (rough guess), perhaps to dot NET, but not necessarily.**
>
> > This page is potentially getting a lot of hits (I'm not privy to the
> > analytics):
>
> >http://packages.python.org/dbf/
>
> The dbf package does not yet support index files.  Normal indexes won't
> be too hard to add in, but I have been unable to find the algorithms
> used to create/work with compact index files.
>
> Does anybody know where I might find those?
>
> ~Ethan~  (author of said package)

I think John Machin has done work on this, or at least mentioned it in
a post somewhere. I could be wrong though - apologies to both you and
John, if I'm imagining things.

Jon.