> Andrew> There's a bunch of jobs we (CSV module maintainers) have been > Andrew> putting off - attached is a list (in no particular order): > ... > >In addition, it occurred to me this evening that there's functionality in >the csv module I don't think anybody uses.
It's very difficult to say for sure that nobody is using it once it's released to the world. >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. Yes, in hindsight, they're not really necessary, although I'm sure we had some motivation for them initially. That said, they're there now, and they shouldn't require much maintenance. >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. The comment I get repeatedly is that they don't use it because it's "too magic/scary". That's as it should be. But if it didn't exist, then someone would be requesting we add it... 8-) -- Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft http://www.object-craft.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
