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Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 12:55:57 +1100
Subject: Re: If you were starting a project with XML datasource using python
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On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>So you would convert it to json so it can then be stored?
>>
>         NO!
>
>         JSON and XML, in my mind, are equivalents -- (human-readable) notations
> for transferring data between applications. JSON may just have fewer
> "options" for how to notate basic data.

JSON corresponds much more closely to Python data types, but
converting from one to the other can't improve matters any.

ChrisA