Using the CSV module

[Nathan Harmston]

I ve just finished writing one, I wanted to stay with the batteries
included approach as much as possible though.

Is there anyway I can request a change to the csv module?

Thanks

Nathan

On 09/05/07, Stefan Sonnenberg-Carstens
<stefan.sonnenberg at pythonmeister.com> wrote:
> Most of the time I found the CSV module not as useful as it might be -
> due to the restrictions you describe.
>
> Why not write a simple parser class ?
>
> On Mi, 9.05.2007, 10:40, Nathan Harmston wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I ve been playing with the CSV module for parsing a few files. A row
> > in a file looks like this:
> >
> > some_id\t|\tsome_data\t|t\some_more_data\t|\tlast_data\t\n
> >
> > so the lineterminator is \t\n and the delimiter is \t|\t, however when
> > I subclass Dialect and try to set delimiter is "\t|\t" it says
> > delimiter can only be a character.
> >
> > I know its an easy fix to just do .strip("\t") on the output I get,
> > but I was wondering
> > a) if theres a better way of doing this when the file is actually
> > being parsed by the csv module
> > b) Why are delimiters only allowed to be one character in length.
> >
> > Many Thanks in advance
> > Nathan
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