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Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres

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Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> writes:

> What is the best way to inplace alter a list going into a postgres
> database using split but being sure that the order of items remains
> correct.

That's a trick question. The best way to modify fields of a record is
not with a list.

Instead, you should get the record in the form of a mapping (such as
Python's built-in mapping type, ‘dict’) and alter the fields *by name*.

Ony when it's time to serialise the data should you then convert it to a
list, extracting by the sequence of field names (‘horseattrs’ in your
example).

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Ben Finney

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Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-05-30 21:27 -0700
  Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-05-31 14:54 +1000
    Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-05-30 22:42 -0700
      Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-05-31 15:52 +1000
  Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-05-31 15:58 +1000
    Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-05-30 23:19 -0700
      Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-05-31 01:46 -0700
        Re: Best way to inplace alter a list going into postgres Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-06-01 06:10 +1000

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