[Python-ideas] csv.DictReader could handle headers more intelligently. (original) (raw)

J. Cliff Dyer jcd at sdf.lonestar.org
Thu Jan 24 17:41:07 CET 2013

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:23 +0000, Mark Hackett wrote:

If someone took the repository of macros from the spreadsheet which used column numbers and this was used to recreate EXACTLY whatever calculations were done without having to keep two copies of the same algorithm to account for the dropping of rows in the script, then dropping the rows would break this.

If that's the case, then why are you using a DictReader instead of a raw csv.reader? You're already losing the first row.

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