[Python-ideas] csv dialect enhancement (repost) (original) (raw)

Federico Reghenzani federico.dev at reghe.net
Sat Jan 12 18:20:32 CET 2013

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:51 PM, rurpy at yahoo.com <rurpy at yahoo.com> wrote:

[Sorry for the duplicated text in the previous post, please ignore that one in favor of this one]

There is a common dialect of CSV, often used in database applications [*1], that distinguishes between an empty (quoted) string,

How many DBMS have this dialect? e.g. MySQL want \N for null values, in other databases this is not even possible. Anyway I think that should be implemented because it may have different uses.

[*2] I don't really care what the attribute name is; I chose "nulls" as a trial balloon because I wanted to avoid something with "none" in it to avoid confusion with QUOTENONE.

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