Seems nice, tarfile has a similar shortcut too. I do tend to reach for pandas now whenever I can for csv processing On Sun, 5 Sep 2021, 16:10 C. Titus Brown via Python-ideas, < python-ideas@python.org> wrote:
Hi all,
the product of Sunday morning idle curiosity...
I’ve been using the csv module a lot, and I’m wondering if there would be value in adding a standard mechanism for opening a CSV file (correctly) using a context manager?
So, instead of
with open(filename, newline=“”) as fp: r = csv.DictReader(fp) for row in r: …
support something like
with csv.DictReader.open(filename) as r: for row in r: …
? And something similar for ‘csv.reader’? I’m not wedded to the details here.
The two main reasons I think this might be a positive addition are -
* you wouldn’t have to know or remember the right way to open a CSV file (newline=“”). * it elides very common code.
but perhaps there are things I’m missing here?
As a side note, I think ‘csv.reader’ could usefully be renamed to something else (maybe just Reader?), since it’s kind of out of sync with the CamelCase used in ‘DictReader’. But maybe that’s just an attempt at foolish consistency :).
best, —titus
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