[Python-Dev] Re: csv module TODO list

2005-01-10 Thread Martin Bless
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:37:17 +1100, Andrew McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>csv.join(aList, e[, dialect='excel'[, fmtparam]]) -> str object Oops, should have been csv.join(aList [, dialect='excel'[, fmtparam]]) -> str object >Yes, it's feasible, Good! >although newlines can be embedded i

Re: [Python-Dev] Re: csv module TODO list

2005-01-09 Thread Andrew McNamara
>I'd love to see a 'split' and a 'join' function in the csv module to >just convert between string and list without having to bother about >files. > >Something like > >csv.split(aStr [, dialect='excel'[, fmtparam]]) -> list object > >and > >csv.join(aList, e[, dialect='excel'[, fmtparam]]) -> str

[Python-Dev] Re: csv module TODO list

2005-01-08 Thread Martin Bless
I'd love to see a 'split' and a 'join' function in the csv module to just convert between string and list without having to bother about files. Something like csv.split(aStr [, dialect='excel'[, fmtparam]]) -> list object and csv.join(aList, e[, dialect='excel'[, fmtparam]]) -> str object Fe

[Python-Dev] Re: csv module TODO list

2005-01-06 Thread Skip Montanaro
Magnus> Quite a while ago I posted some material to the csv-list about Magnus> problems using the csv module on Unix-style colon-separated Magnus> files -- it just doesn't deal properly with backslash escaping Magnus> and is quite useless for this kind of file. I seem to recall the

[Python-Dev] Re: csv module TODO list

2005-01-05 Thread Magnus Lie Hetland
Quite a while ago I posted some material to the csv-list about problems using the csv module on Unix-style colon-separated files -- it just doesn't deal properly with backslash escaping and is quite useless for this kind of file. I seem to recall the general view was that it wasn't intended for thi

[Python-Dev] Re: csv module TODO list

2005-01-05 Thread Andrew McNamara
>Quite a while ago I posted some material to the csv-list about >problems using the csv module on Unix-style colon-separated files -- >it just doesn't deal properly with backslash escaping and is quite >useless for this kind of file. I seem to recall the general view was >that it wasn't intended fo