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

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Fri Jan 25 04:25:38 CET 2013


On 01/22/2013 05:06 PM, J. Cliff Dyer wrote:

> Thoughts? Do folks think this is worth adding to the csv library, or
> should I just keep using my subclass?

+1 for ignoring blank lines (including delimiter-only lines)

+1 for raising an exception on duplicate headers

+1 for a flag to not raise on duplicate empty headers (but a completely 
empty header line is still ignored)

~Ethan~




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