Columnar data format

Note: These are all early prototypes.

Data as Python objects

Femtocode data would usually not be represented as Python objects, but I define a mapping here just to be concrete about what the prototype shredding/assembly algorithms do. See [Type System](Type System) for an elaboration on Femtocode types.

Femtocode schema	Python (3) type	Python example
Null	NoneType	None
Boolean	bool	True, False
Number	int, float	3, 3.14
String with charset="bytes"	bytes	b"hello"
String with charset="unicode"	str	u"hello"
Collection	list	[1, 2, 3]
Record	namedtuple	namedtuple("rec1", ["x", "y"])(3.14, b"hello")
Union	any of the above (ambiguous)	None, 3.14, b"hello"