CSV reader and writer#

Agate contains CSV readers and writers that are intended to be used as a drop-in replacement for csv. These versions add unicode support for Python 2 and several other minor features.

Agate methods will use these version automatically. If you would like to use them in your own code, you can import them, like this:

from agate import csv

Due to nuanced differences between the versions, these classes are implemented seperately for Python 2 and Python 3. The documentation for both versions is provided below, but only the one for your version of Python is imported with the above code.

Python 3#

`agate.csv_py3.reader`	A replacement for Python's `csv.reader()` that uses `csv_py3.Reader`.
`agate.csv_py3.writer`	A replacement for Python's `csv.writer()` that uses `csv_py3.Writer`.
`agate.csv_py3.Reader`	A wrapper around Python 3's builtin `csv.reader()`.
`agate.csv_py3.Writer`	A wrapper around Python 3's builtin `csv.writer()`.
`agate.csv_py3.DictReader`	A wrapper around Python 3's builtin `csv.DictReader`.
`agate.csv_py3.DictWriter`	A wrapper around Python 3's builtin `csv.DictWriter`.

Python 3 details#

agate.csv_py3.reader(*args, **kwargs)#: A replacement for Python’s csv.reader() that uses csv_py3.Reader.

agate.csv_py3.writer(*args, **kwargs)#: A replacement for Python’s csv.writer() that uses csv_py3.Writer.

class agate.csv_py3.Reader(f, field_size_limit=None, line_numbers=False, header=True, **kwargs)#: A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.reader().

class agate.csv_py3.Writer(f, line_numbers=False, **kwargs)#: A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.writer().

class agate.csv_py3.DictReader(f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None, dialect='excel', *args, **kwds)#: A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.DictReader.

class agate.csv_py3.DictWriter(f, fieldnames, line_numbers=False, **kwargs)#: A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.DictWriter.