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Re: Step further with filebasedMessages

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Op Tuesday 5 May 2015 11:20 CEST schreef Chris Angelico:

> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:52 PM, Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> wrote:
>> I now defined get_message_slice:
>
> You're doing a lot of work involving flat-file storage of sequential
> data. There are two possibilities:
>
> 1) Your files are small, so you shouldn't concern yourself with
> details at all - just do whatever looks reasonable, nothing will
> matter;

In my case the files are very small. Biggest is 150 lines. But if you
publish your code, you never know in which situation it will be used.

The suggestion implement a slice came from this newsgroup. ;-) And I
found it a good idea.

It is also to get reacquainted with Python.

> or 2) Your files are bigger than that, performance might be
> a problem (especially when your Big Oh starts looking bad), and you
> should move to a database.
>
> Maybe even with small files, a database would be cleaner. You can
> grab whichever rows you want based on their IDs, and the database
> will do the work for you. Grab SQLite3 or PostgreSQL, give it a
> whirl - you may find that it does everything you need, right out of
> the box.

Is a next step. I want to use PostgreSQL with SQLAlchemy.

-- 
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof

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Step further with filebasedMessages Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-05 10:52 +0200
  Re: Step further with filebasedMessages Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 19:20 +1000
    Re: Step further with filebasedMessages Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-05 12:14 +0200
  Re: Step further with filebasedMessages Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-05 20:41 +1000
    Re: Step further with filebasedMessages Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-05 13:27 +0200
      Re: Step further with filebasedMessages Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-05-05 07:57 -0600
        Re: Step further with filebasedMessages Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-05 16:51 +0200
  Re: Step further with filebasedMessages Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2015-05-05 13:08 +0200
    Re: Step further with filebasedMessages Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl> - 2015-05-05 17:25 +0200
      Re: Step further with filebasedMessages Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-05-05 13:10 -0400

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