[Python-ideas] csv.DictReader could handle headers more intelligently.

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 2:11 AM, J. Cliff Dyer <jcd at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 13:38 +0100, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> > 1. Do any data conditioning by ignoring empty lines and lines of
>> > just field delimiters before the header row (consensus seems to be
>> > "no")
>
> Well, I wouldn't necessarily say we have a consensus on this one.  This
> idea received a +1 from Bruce Leban and an "I don't see any reason not
> to" from Steven D'Aprano.

I've been lurking this thread, but fwiw, I'd put +1 on ignoring empty
lines/just delimiter lines. For a row of column headers, a completely
blank line makes no sense. It's a backward-incompatible change, yes,
but I can't imagine any code actively relying on this. ISTM this would
probably be safe for a minor release (Python 3.4), though of course
not for Python 3.3.1.

ChrisA