[Python-Dev] Re: [Csv] csv module TODO list (original) (raw)

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed Jan 5 08:33:04 CET 2005 

Andrew> There's a bunch of jobs we (CSV module maintainers) have been
Andrew> putting off - attached is a list (in no particular order):

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In addition, it occurred to me this evening that there's functionality in the csv module I don't think anybody uses. For example, you can register CSV dialects by name, then pass in the string name instead of the dialect class. I'd be in favor of scrapping list_dialects, register_dialect and unregister_dialect altogether. While they are probably trivial little functions I don't think they add much if anything to the implementation and just complicate the _csv extension module slightly. I'm also not aware that anyone really uses the Sniffer class, though it does provide some useful functionality should you need to analyze random CSV files.

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