Andrew Dalke's space example (was Re: [Csv] csv)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon Feb 24 02:15:44 CET 2003


    John> Yes, it should. What is the use case for the registry, anyway?

My original thought was that the module itself would grow new dialects over
time and that it would be easier for programmers and users to remember and
recognize strings like "excel" or "gnumeric" or "appleworks".  The biggest
use for a registry is probably within GUI apps that need to read/write CSV
files.  The strings make nice pop-up menu items, then are internally used as
keys in the "registry", which is nothing more than a dict.

Skip



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