[issue32116] CSV import and export simplified

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I'm also -1 on this feature request. The open and closing of files is orthogonal to what you do with an open file. Likewise, iterators are orthogonal to how they are consumed (for-loops, list(), set(), etc). FWIW, csv.Reader object is an iterator that ca

[issue32116] CSV import and export simplified

Change by Paul Long : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +4478 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list ma

[issue32116] CSV import and export simplified

Paul Long added the comment: Thanks for your advice. The reason it's not provided as a canned function is because different schools can use different programming languages, although the vast majority choose to use Python. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue32116] CSV import and export simplified

R. David Murray added the comment: Um. If they aren't expected to understand how to write this code, why isn't it being provided to them as a canned function as part of the test environment? To succeed in getting something like this added, I suspect you will need to show that it has more gen

[issue32116] CSV import and export simplified

Paul Long added the comment: I should have added that there are thousands of 15 year old students completing GCSE Computer Science who would benefit massively from this. All the exam boards in England require students to be able to read from and write to CSV files. The complicated way of do

[issue32116] CSV import and export simplified

R. David Murray added the comment: Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm -0.5. I don't think these are compelling enough to be worth adding to the module API. The number of times I've done this kind of operation is far smaller than the number of times I've had other code in both the input and

[issue32116] CSV import and export simplified

New submission from Paul Long : It would be helpful if the CSV module included standard functions that simplify the import of CSV files to a list and the export of CSV files to a list. Here's an example of what they could be: def csv2list(file_name): list_name=[] with open(file_name