Hi all,
after a longish pause I've taken up my pet python project again (must say that the decisive factor was the discovery of how easy it is to code the GUI with QT designer and pyqt).
The core of the problem I'm facing, however, is not the GUI, it is conceptual.
In the end my program will have to create a printed representation of a certain number of "things" which are characterized by each having a time attribute (moment when they start, moment when they end); each "thing" will have to be filled in by a certain content, chosen from a user defined list of possibilities; however each thing will also have to have a series of other attributes ... which will change during the process of assigning content (for instance: once content 'A' is assigned to foo, bar immediately following may well change some attribute ... BUT the effect of content A on foo and bar may well be different from the effect of content B. Naturally if content A is present in a certain thing it can't be present in a contemporaneaous one... sounds a mess ? It is ... also, the rules by which A and B influence the content will have to be modifiable by the user.)
At the moment I am collecting user input into a dictionary of lists. The question is: do you believe it would be better to code a series of functions to interact with my dictionary and keep data, attributes etc. in lists therein, or would it be more efficient to create an appointment class, create a new instance of each class for each appointment, and eventually store each instance in a dictionary ?
Where could I read up something about relative advantages / disadvantages of each approach ?
Thanks for any hints.
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