CSV Dialect Example Requested - NEWBIE

Vincent Marchetti vincem at en.com
Tue Oct 28 06:09:11 EST 2003


In article <RJrnb.117433$a16.19895 at lakeread01>, "caldwellinva"
<caldwellinva at cox.net> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> ** CSV Dialect Example Requested  - NEWBIE **
> 
> I would like to use the CSV module and would like to see a working example
> that uses a custom dialect.  I have tried the following example from an
> earlier posting to the group
> 
> import csv
> 
> import csv
> class dialect(csv.dialect):
>     delimiter = '|'
>     skipinitialspace = True
>     quotechar = '"'
>     doublequote = True
> 

I do not have an example, but the first failure in this script is that the
class in the csv module that you want to use as a base class is
csv.Dialect (note case). This causes the attribute error you report.

Vince




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