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

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On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2011.07.31 02:41 AM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
<snip>
>> Another approach would be named tuples instead of dictionaries or flat
>> SQL tables.
> What would the advantage of that be?

Less punctuation noise:
QueueItem.x264.avs.filter.fft3d.ffte
vs.
QueueItem.x264['avs']['filter']['fft3d']['ffte']

It would also make clear that your sets of "keys" are static (unlike
typical dictionary usage).

Cheers,
Chris
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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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