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Skip Montanaro wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap=""> Gabriel> Is there a known-bug in csv.DictWriter? It is ignoring my
Gabriel> attempts to specify a Dialect. It doesn't even error if you
Gabriel> give it anything invalid. I can send it the registered
Gabriel> string-name of the dialect, a string of gibberish, a dialect
Gabriel> object instance, a dialect class object... it accepts all and
Gabriel> ignores all.
Fixed in CVS I believe. I will check when I get a chance (there doesn't
seem to be a test case for this), but you might try grabbing the DictWriter
class from the csv.py that's in CVS.
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Bah, it turns out I was a goofball. I forgot that there were two
parameters between the last required param and the dialact parameter. <br>
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Basically the function definition looks like this:<br>
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<b><tt id="l2h-3916" class="class">DictWriter</tt></b>(<var>csvfile,
fieldnames</var><big>[</big><var>, restval=""</var><big>[</big><var>,
extrasaction=<code>'raise'</code></var><big>[</big><var>, dialect=<code>'excel'</code></var><big>[</big><var>,
fmtparam</var><big>]</big><big>]</big><big>]</big><big>]</big>)<br>
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and I did this:<br>
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x = DictWriter(file, fields, dialect)<br>
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when I actually had to do either:<br>
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x = DictWriter(file, fields, None, None, dialect)<br>
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or <br>
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x = DictWriter(file, fields, dialect=dialect)<br>
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Whoops. I ignored the two parameters 'restval' and 'extrasaction'. <br>
The worst part is how much time I spent looking at that and simply
didn't see it. Tsk Tsk. <br>
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Gabriel.<br>
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