[Zope] Re: CSV (Was: Perl scripts)

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Tino Wildenhain wrote:

> Still, if you want to _create_ csv from database, you sure dont need
> perl. Remember the overhead of calling a foreign interpreter
> just for generation of a text string which could be done in python
> easyly, without even requiring external methods. You only have to
> analyze the output of your perl script and make your python method
> output the same. This schould not be so hard.
For sure I will not use Perl for creating CSV.  This would be *really*
stupid.  On the other hand I observed that creating the CSV from larger
data sets was *very* slow (unacceptable long download time :-().  So
I have to do something here ...

Kind regards

        Andreas.