Simple search and Display system, no need for db?

[flit]

Hello All,

I was discussing with a friend and we get in a hot debate.

We have homepage that act like a name list.

The user goes there:

- Choose the building -- Department and the user receive an html table
with all names .

So the user gives two inputs and receive the names.

Currently we are using this in mysql, This is the reason of the
debate.

If our list will never change and we are supposing that will be true
for a long time, is it not too much use an mysql?

Which kind of structure can we use in python? in web?

Thanks!

[Helmut Jarausch]

flit wrote:

Hello All,

I was discussing with a friend and we get in a hot debate.

We have homepage that act like a name list.

The user goes there:

- Choose the building -- Department and the user receive an html table
with all names .

So the user gives two inputs and receive the names.

Currently we are using this in mysql, This is the reason of the
debate.

If our list will never change and we are supposing that will be true
for a long time, is it not too much use an mysql?

Which kind of structure can we use in python? in web?

What about using a simple dictionary in Python. You can use the module
pickle (or cpickle) to dump it to disk and load it next time.
Furthermore you can easily write the whole web server in Python,
e.g. I like http://karrigell.sourceforge.net/

--
Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[flit]

On Jul 11, 3:06 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[e-mail]:

If the data is not too large, simple text files would do. Maybe in CSV
format. Either with building and department as columns in the files or
coded into the file name or path.

That seems to be a good idea, but I am afraid the web hosting does not
have the csv modules..
(maybe if I do an split?)

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:52:32 +0000, flit wrote:

That seems to be a good idea, but I am afraid the web hosting does not
have the csv modules..

The `csv` module is part of the standard library.

Ciao,
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch