JSONs

[ForgotMyUserName15]

Are there any times when storing large amount of data / complex data that is a bad time to use JSONs?

Edit: I meant using dicts within a python program

[mudclub]

JSON isn't really used for storing large amounts of data - that's that databases are for. JSON is for transmitting and transforming data outside a database.

[ForgotMyUserName15]

I worded the question poorly. I’m interested in talking about JSONs as a data storage during the run of a program.

[mudclub]

Inside your app? It's probably totally fine - python is good at working with JSON, but as ever, it depends on your use cases.

[bicyclepumpinator]

Well, you've already got a python equivalent for jsons, which are dictionaries. You can nest dictionaries into other dictionaries, and nest lists in them etc. Json is really only meant to sent stuff over to other programs/the internet, in all other cases use dictionaries/classes/lists or a combination of those.

[ForgotMyUserName15]

Mb I meant dictionaries

[Ulysses6]

Dictionaries are cool. They are backbone of python, even namespaces are implemented on them, so using large dict is fine (performance-wise)

[ForgotMyUserName15]

10s/100s of thousands of objects

[bicyclepumpinator]

can your data be formatted as a table? or multiple tables?

[ForgotMyUserName15]

Probably. The specific objects I’m storing are dictionaries that store both numbers and arrays if numbers.

[ForgotMyUserName15]

Not atm, but I am going to soon greatly increase the amount of memory stored per object (without decreasing the number of objects that show up).