Python CSV DictWriter Problems

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Mon May 3 17:15:47 EDT 2004


    Gabriel> Is there a known-bug in csv.DictWriter? It is ignoring my
    Gabriel> attempts to specify a Dialect. It doesn't even error if you
    Gabriel> give it anything invalid. I can send it the registered
    Gabriel> string-name of the dialect, a string of gibberish, a dialect
    Gabriel> object instance, a dialect class object... it accepts all and
    Gabriel> ignores all.

Fixed in CVS I believe.  I will check when I get a chance (there doesn't
seem to be a test case for this), but you might try grabbing the DictWriter
class from the csv.py that's in CVS.

Skip




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