Re: formatting output in rpm-python?

seth vidal <skvidal-c/MNwgJ9CEH2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]> Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:40:58 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.python
Message-ID <1074357658.17373.19.camel@binkley>

> Right, I found the solution (and the `problem' more or less):
> 
>   tmp = h.dsFromHeader('requirename')
>     for i in tmp:
>            print i
> 
> gives me tuples like
> 
> ('textutils', '', 64)
> 
> which is far more usable for me :)

What is the preference for using dsFromHeader() instead of grabbing
REQUIRENAME, REQUIREFLAGS and REQUIREVERSION and zipping them together
to make, more or less, the same set of things.

I guess I'm just trying to figure out which methods are the 'preferred
ones' and why they're preferred.

-sv