[Tutor] Long post: Request comments on starting code and test code on chess rating project.

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2017-08-16, boB Stepp <robertvstepp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor
> <tutor at python.org> wrote:
>> On 15/08/17 15:09, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>>>> There are a variety of reports that I would like to be able
>>>> to print to screen or paper.  Things such as a "Top x List"
>>>> of rated players, full rating list sorted from highest
>>>> rating to lowest, rating lists for the current school year
>>>> only or a particular past school year, and so.  ...
>>
>>> You really can do it, but to me this requirement argues for
>>> going back to a database backend. Why rewrite SQL?
>
> I just thought this would be an interesting problem type to
> tackle. No intentions of reinventing SQL!

If you think it'll be fun or interesting, that's a plenty good
reason to do it yourself. On the other hand, practicing the
Python DB-API can be fun and profitable, too. As a near total
neophyte to SQL and databases, attaining the skill of
incoporating sqlite3 into my Python projects took me a couple of
years of on/off again practice. But it has since saved me a ton
of effort.

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Neil Cerutti