[Csv] CSV interface question

Andrew McNamara andrewm at object-craft.com.au
Wed Jan 29 11:16:58 CET 2003


>Maybe we should consider a "container of options" class (of which the
>dialects would be subclasses). The sniffing code could then return an
>instance of this class (which wouldn't necessarily be a dialect). With
>this, you might do things like:

Another thought - rather than specify the dialect name as a string,
it could be specified as a class or instance - something like:

    csv.reader(fileobj, csv.dialect.excel)

Thoughts?

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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
http://www.object-craft.com.au/
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