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| From | Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Help me with this code PLEASE |
| Date | 2013-11-05 19:32 -0500 |
| Organization | IISS Elusive Unicorn |
| References | <l5b8if$4k1$1@dont-email.me> <m238na1oma.fsf@cochabamba.vanoostrum.org> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.2069.1383697954.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:15:57 -0400, Piet van Oostrum <piet@vanoostrum.org>
declaimed the following:
>Nick the Gr33k <nikos.gr33k@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> IAM STRUGGLING WITH IT 2 DAYS NOW AND I CANNOT GET IT TO WORK.
>>
>> ALL I WANT IT TO DO IS JUST
>>
>> 1. RETRIEVE 3 COLUMNS THAT CONSIST OF 3 LONG STRINGS
>> 2. CONVERT LONG STRINGS TO LISTS
>> 3. ADD SOME CURRENT VALUES TO THOSE LISTS
>> 4. CONVERT FROM LISTS TO LONG STRINGS SO I CAN STORE SUCCESSFULLY LIST
>> PYTHON DATATYPE TO MYSQL SCALAR STRING.
>>
>> EVERYHTIGN I TRIED FAILED.
>
>Then why don't you use the simple solution: use a relational database to store the data?
He /is/ using a relational database (MySQL, please, no complaints)...
He just doesn't understand what it means to be a relational database:
normalization, primary keys, joins, etc. -- so he is treating the database
like a flat file and trying to fit into one field multi-valued data.
--
Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
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