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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Baby X is bor nagain
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:39:01 +0100
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On 18/06/2024 16:40, Michael S wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:36:40 +0200
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Of course if you don't know Python, it will be slower to write it in
>> Python!
>>
> 
> I don't know Python well, but it does not meant that I don't know it at
> all.
> Few minutes ago I took a look into docs and it seems that situation with
> writing binary data files with predefined layout is better than what I
> was suspecting. They have something called "Buffer Protocol". It allows
> to specify layout in declarative manner, similarly to C struct or may
> be even to Ada's records with representation clause.
> However attempt to read the doc page further down proved that my
> suspicion about steepness of the learning curve was not wrong :(
> 
> 
My main experience of Python was that we had some resource files which 
were icons, in matching light and dark themes. The light theme had 
suffix _L followed by extension, and the dark themes had _D. And they 
needed to be sorted alphabetically, except that _L should be placed 
before _D.
And it didn't take long to get Python to sort the list alphabetically, 
but there seemed no way in to the sort comparision function itself. And 
I had to give up.

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http://malcolmmclean.github.io/babyxrc