[Csv] another _csv question
Andrew McNamara
andrewm at object-craft.com.au
Wed Feb 5 04:26:17 CET 2003
> Andrew> I think this is an unnecessary restriction. You might want to do
> Andrew> something like:
>
> Andrew> class SnifferDialect(csv.Dialect):
> Andrew> pass
>
> Andrew> def sniff(...):
> Andrew> dialect = SnifferDialect()
> Andrew> ... try stuff ...
> Andrew> dialect.delimiter = '\t'
> Andrew> ... try more stuff ...
>
>I can buy that. Maybe what we need then is some way to force validation
>after changes are made, but before the dialect info is tossed over the wall
>to the low-level module.
I think we're trying too hard - it's acceptable for the validation to only
occur when the reader or writer factories are called, I think.
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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
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