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		tjpick on March 25, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Onion Uses Django and Why it Matters to Us or if you have relations, skip the object mapping and treat the data as lower level structures.

jrockway on March 25, 2010 [–]

No. Don't do that.

The data in your computer program needs to be in a format that's easy for your program to use.

tjpick on March 26, 2010 | [–]

set and lists and dicts and raw values are pretty damn easy. Especially if you're programming functionally etc.

(Different strokes for different folks.)

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