School Management System in Python

Sam Chats saurabh.chaturvedi63 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 09:34:26 EDT 2017


On Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 6:56:06 PM UTC+5:30, Thomas Nyberg wrote:
> On 07/05/2017 03:18 PM, YOUR_NAME_HERE wrote:
> > On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 13:02:36 +0000 (UTC) YOUR_NAME_HERE wrote:
> >> I can use either tsv or csv. Which one would be better?
> > 
> > 
> > Some people complain that tsv has problems, so maybe csv would be the way to go.
> > 
> I almost always use csv personally, but it's a preference. I'm not sure
> what the problems are you're refering to, but I guess that points to
> using commas as well. Either way, it's not hard to switch between the two:
> 
> import csv
> 
> # Using regular commas
> with open('outfile.csv', 'w') as outfile:
>     writer = csv.writer(outfile)
>     writer.writerow(range(5))
> 
> # Using tabs
> with open('outfile.tsv', 'w') as outfile:
>     writer = csv.writer(outfile, delimiter='\t')
>     writer.writerow(range(5))
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas

Just curious, is it better, performance wise, to read from a text file (css or tsv) compared to reading from a binary pickle file?



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