[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 in

[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

[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