[docs] Suggestion for documentation improvement
Johannes Ammon
j.ammon at dr-ammon.de
Fri Nov 1 07:38:58 CET 2013
Dear python developpers,
I ran into the unicode problem of the csv module in the python standard
library (2.7.5) and immediately found the solution in the docs. I just
used the UTF8Recoder/UnicodeReader/UnicodeWriter proposed in
http://docs.python.org/2/library/csv.html#examples. Thank you for that!
There is just one little problem with UnicodeWriter, which imho has an
easy solution:
class UnicodeWriter:
"..."
def writerow(self, row):
self.writer.writerow([s.encode("utf-8") for s in row])
"..."
When "s" is not a string (i.e. when "row" contains an element, that is
e.g. None or an int, which is ok for csv.writer), I get a
"AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'encode'"
So I changed this bit of code to
def writerow(self, row):
self.writer.writerow([unicode(s).encode("utf-8") if s is not None
else "" for s in row])
"..."
Ok, this is a bit complicated for an educational code sample, but I
think there are more people like me, that just use the code samples from
the docs.
Best regards, Johannes
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