Talk:Price fraction: Difference between revisions

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:If the government supplied data then I would copy their description into the program and add a link to the original source too. When things change, the maintainer would have both before and after sources to decide on what has changed and then to implement that change. on how the routine is coded: after learning about bisect it seems right for the job and leaves the raw range and output price data in a nicely displayed way. A competent maintainer who didn't know the bisect model should be able to learn to use it from the Python documentation and a little experimentation as its use in the Python example is straight-forward. <br>
:CSV has its uses but this table of regions I find OK for this task, but see no need to parse it as part of performing the task. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 09:42, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
::Given the regularity of the data, I'd go for TSV (tab-separated values) rather than CSV (comma-separated values). TSV's whitespace makes things clearer than a comma. --[[User:Axtens|Axtens]] 13:48, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
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