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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-27 07:27:06 +0000
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2010-10-27 07:27:06 +0000
commit7424dd359c9ffcd9a2b866f62fafda6d3a99b4b1 (patch)
treef3cd5d315c397839b4ab2c96612708c0b73f67dd /Lib/csv.py
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#5975: add unix_dialect to csv module.
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/csv.py b/Lib/csv.py
index 5ae5a730468..e0f47e8b5d3 100644
--- a/Lib/csv.py
+++ b/Lib/csv.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ __all__ = [ "QUOTE_MINIMAL", "QUOTE_ALL", "QUOTE_NONNUMERIC", "QUOTE_NONE",
"unregister_dialect", "__version__", "DictReader", "DictWriter" ]
class Dialect:
- """Describe an Excel dialect.
+ """Describe a CSV dialect.
This must be subclassed (see csv.excel). Valid attributes are:
delimiter, quotechar, escapechar, doublequote, skipinitialspace,
@@ -65,6 +65,16 @@ class excel_tab(excel):
delimiter = '\t'
register_dialect("excel-tab", excel_tab)
+class unix_dialect(Dialect):
+ """Describe the usual properties of Unix-generated CSV files."""
+ delimiter = ','
+ quotechar = '"'
+ doublequote = True
+ skipinitialspace = False
+ lineterminator = '\n'
+ quoting = QUOTE_ALL
+register_dialect("unix", unix_dialect)
+
class DictReader:
def __init__(self, f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None,