[Tutor] How best to structure a plain text data file for use in program(s) and later updating with new data?

[Martin A. Brown]

Good afternoon again,

> I looked at [0] and it states that it is backwards compatible to
> version 2.5, which is one iteration higher than my lowest installed
> python version at work. They provide a link to an older simplejson
> that is from the python 2.2 era, but state that this should be done
> only as a last resort.

> Is there a typo on [0]? Will it in fact work for python 2.4?

Probably not.

I don't recall what version of simplejson I used with Python-2.4.

Note:  If they provide a version that will work back to Python-2.2 
and the next option is something that only works with Python-2.5+, 
then the obvious choice is to use the old version of software.

The developers of simplejson (and most developers) will probably not 
want to support very old releases of their software, which is why 
they suggest using this as a last resort.

If you can install or use a newer Python, then maybe that's a better 
option for you.

If you can not do so, then take this older version of simplejson. 
You are at that place of last resort to which the simplejson authors 
allude.

How do you like it at that resort?  Would I want to go on vacation 
there?

-Martin

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