tobiah wrote: >> you may be misreading the docs; the Dialect has no values at all, and >> must be subclassed (and the subclass must provide settings). > > The docs clearly state what the defaults are, but they are not > in the code. It seems so clumsy to have to specify every one > of these, just to change the delimiter from comma to tab. > > http://docs.python.org/lib/csv-fmt-params.html : > > delimiter > A one-character string used to separate fields. It defaults to ','.
Note that you need not bother with a dialect class just to change the delimiter: >>> import csv >>> from cStringIO import StringIO >>> instream = StringIO( ... "alpha\tbeta\tgamma\r\n" ... "one\ttoo\ttree\r\n") >>> for row in csv.reader(instream, delimiter="\t"): ... print row ... ['alpha', 'beta', 'gamma'] ['one', 'too', 'tree'] Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
