Poll: Do you use csv.Sniffer?

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Fri Sep 25 02:49:28 EDT 2009


On Sep 25, 2:00 pm, Alex_Gaynor <alex.gay... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 24, 10:26 pm, s... at pobox.com wrote:
> > If you are a csv module user, I have a question for you:  Do you use the
> > csv.Sniffer class?
>
> I just used it yesterday :)  Not having it would mean I'd need to add
> another dependency to my project so that I can import data from my
> client (it's easier to reexport his Excel spreadsheets as CSV and
> import that), that's not the end of the world, but what's the argument
> against leaving it in the stdlib?

Why do you need the sniffer? If your client can't do "save as" the
same way twice, just read the spreadsheets directly!



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