csv.py sucks for Decimal

[Jerry Hill]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:03 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> It might be a stupid question, but have you tried passing in the
> Decimal() object itself?

MRAB's suggestion works for me in python 3.1.2:

import csv, io
from decimal import Decimal

d = Decimal("10.00")
o = io.StringIO()
w = csv.writer(o, quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONNUMERIC)

w.writerow([10, 10.00, d, "10"])

print(o.getvalue())

>>>
10,10.0,10.00,"10"

That's an int, a float, a Decimal and a string, all of which appear to
be formatted as I would expect.

-- 
Jerry