I came across a problem where I wanted to grab some data off a CSV text file (see sample below) and plug it into a data structure, but — and there’s always a “but” — I had to do it in ANSI C. Eyeroll. Doing it in Python would be a snap:
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path = "players.txt"
dbfile = [...]
PHP I can do just fine; and I’m still in awe of the possibilities with Python (I always end up thinking: whoa… you can do that in Python?! Is this a noob thing? Because so many things are just darn easy in Python!). But I haven’t even looked sideways at any C code since 1997, never got over my fear of Java, and the last version of Visual Basic I used was VB4. Oh, and I don’t even know what COBOL code looks like. So yeah, SOL.
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