[okfn-labs] Python Iterator over table (csv) *columns*

Paul Walsh paulywalsh at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 05:50:45 UTC 2014


Sure Tom, granted. 

My original question was about possible ways to iterate over columns of CSV data without loading a whole file into memory: not why/why not to do so.

The thread developed from there, and that is great.


> On 18 Dec 2014, at 07:39, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 11:49 PM, Paul Walsh <paulywalsh at gmail.com <mailto:paulywalsh at gmail.com>> wrote:
> There will be a web service that could be handling any number of validation requests, as part of a larger application. Obviously jobs will run on a queue outside of the request cycle, but I have to consider memory use and workload in such a scenario.
> 
> The quality of your answers will depend, to a large degree, on the quality of your questions.
> 
> If you're going to incrementally disclose your requirements, you're going to get poor quality answers until the very end.
> 
> Tom 

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