[Python-ideas] csv.DictReader could handle headers more intelligently.

[Mark Hackett]

On Thursday 24 Jan 2013, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc wrote:
> 2013/1/24 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
> 
> > -1 to adding optional parameters that change the behaviour of a class.
> 
> Unfortunately there is a precedent with csv.DictWriter:
> extrasaction='raise' or 'ignore'.
> And the feature is close to the one proposed here: how to deal with
> "invalid" data.
> 

Just because you did wrong before doesn't mean you need to do it wrong again!