xotl.tools.future.csv - CSV parsing and writing extensions

New in version 1.8.4.

This module extends the standard library’s csv. You may use it as a drop-in replacement in many cases.

Avoid importing * from this module since could be different in Python 2.7 and Python 3.3.

We added the following features.

class xotl.tools.future.csv.unix_dialect[source]

Describe the usual properties of Unix-generated CSV files.

Added only in Python 2 for compatibility purposes.

xotl.tools.future.csv.parse(data, *dialect, **options)[source]

Parse data into a sheet.

This function has the exact parameters protocol as reader()

parse(data [, dialect='excel'] [, optional keyword options])
Parameters:
  • data – Can be any object that returns a line of input for each iteration, such as a file object or a list.
  • dialect – An optional parameter can be given which is used to define a set of parameters specific to a particular CSV dialect. It may be an instance of a subclass of the Dialect class or one of the strings returned by the list_dialects() function.

The other optional keyword arguments can be given to override individual formatting parameters in the current dialect.

When reading a value, csv for Python version 2 doesn’t accept unicode text, so given data lines are forced to be str values before processed by reader(). Each cell is converted to unicode text after read.

Returns:The parsed matrix.

A short usage example:

>>> from xotl.tools.future import csv
>>> with open('test.csv', newline='') as data:
...     matrix = csv.parse(data)
...     for row in matrix:
...         print(', '.join(row))
Last name, First Name
van Rossum, Guido
Stallman, Richard