PEP 305 - CSV File API

[Ian Bicking]

On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 15:55, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
>         Is anyone working on a csvDB module to plug on top <G> I've 
> encountered so many CSVs where the first row was column headers, and 
> all rows were similar (no variant field counts, etc.) that being able 
> to do something like:
> 
>         con = csvDB(file="some.csv")
>         cs = con.cursor()
>         cs.execute("select field1, field2 from place-holder where field3 = 
> 'Y'")
>         ...

The most practical way to do this would be a CSV loader for Gadfly or
SQLLite.  If you didn't want DBI compatibility (or really SQL
compatibility) then of course it would be considerably easier.

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