Don't sort variables in TXTResultSerializer by aucampia · Pull Request #1310 · RDFLib/rdflib (original) (raw)

Does this introduce any speedup or something like that?

I did not test it, I presume it would, but I don't think it will be significant. This sort happens once per query, not per row.

There is not really a production or high volume use case for txtresults as it is not standardized and using csv, tsv, json, xml would be better for such cases.

It is more an issue of correctness, as when I run a select and ouput it as txt it would be best if the column order is the same as the order I specified in my select (same as it would be for csv and tsv as far as I know).

This was mainly prompted by #1249 - I do believe I have been annoyed by this in the past because I recall instead using csv and piping to column.