Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or am I just doing it wrong?

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On 2011.07.31 02:41 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> The "QueueItem.x264['avs']['filter']['fft3d']['ffte'])" example does not 
> look right. Especially the mix of "." and "[]" references. Actually, 
> dictionaries in a dictionary don't look right to me either.
QueueItem is the class; x264 is a dictionary.

> The design of your data structure won't change. I would think that your 
> program already mimicks it by nested class statements so you're 
> duplicating the already existing class structure via dictionaries in 
> order to have it available in the main class.
Huh? I only have no nested class statements.

> Another approach would be named tuples instead of dictionaries or flat 
> SQL tables.
What would the advantage of that be?

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Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or am I just doing it wrong? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-30 22:10 -0500
  Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or   am I just doing it wrong? Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-07-31 09:41 +0200
    Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or am I just doing it wrong? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-31 13:36 -0500
      Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or   am I just doing it wrong? Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@thorstenkampe.de> - 2011-07-31 22:04 +0200
        Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or am I just doing it wrong? Philip Semanchuk <philip@semanchuk.com> - 2011-07-31 16:53 -0400
        Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or am I just doing it wrong? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-31 17:26 -0500
          Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or   am I just doing it wrong? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-08-01 18:29 +1200
    Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or am I just doing it wrong? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-07-31 12:51 -0700
    Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or am I just doing it wrong? Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> - 2011-07-31 15:34 -0500
      Re: Deeply nested dictionaries - should I look into a database or am I just doing it wrong? BlueBird <phil@freehackers.org> - 2011-08-02 02:17 -0700

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