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by icebraining 3507 days ago
Why it awful? As an archive, seems decent.
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dmd 3507 days ago
(1) inconsistent escaping rules (dealing with the literal string \nFrom)

(2) easy to corrupt

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creeble 3507 days ago
Worth noting that Google provides some Python sample code for parsing the file which works great.
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cdubzzz 3507 days ago
Interesting - could you point out where to find this? I poked around a bit but didn't come up with anything.
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