CSV Dialect Example Requested - NEWBIE

[caldwellinva]

Hi!

> 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, thank you for pointing this out ... it runs further now, but still
produces an error.

Revised Version

import csv

import csv
class dialect(csv.Dialect):
    delimiter = '|'
    skipinitialspace = True
    quotechar = '"'
    doublequote = True

reader = csv.reader(file("c:\\Temp\\test.csv"), dialect=dialect)
for row in reader:
     print row

Error Message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"C:\Python23\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin\pywin\framework\scriptutils.py",
line 310, in RunScript
    exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
  File "C:\Python23\DougSource\test_csv.py", line 10, in ?
    reader = csv.reader(file("c:\\Temp\\test.csv"), dialect=dialect)
  File "C:\Python23\lib\csv.py", line 39, in __init__
    raise Error, "Dialect did not validate: %s" % ", ".join(errors)
Error: Dialect did not validate: lineterminator not set, quoting parameter
not set

Thank you,

Doug Caldwell
5533 Dunsmore Road
Alexandria, VA  22315

caldwellinva at cox.net
703-922-8725