csvlike.csv module

Module providing a custom CSV file parser with support for whitespace trimming, empty lines filtering and comment lines

exception csvlike.csv.CSVParserError(message, line, char, index)

Bases: ValueError

Some error occured while attempting to parse the file

class csvlike.csv.DefaultDialect

Bases: csvlike.csv.Dialect

Default csv-like dialect, using comma separators, double quote chars and hash as the comment char with newline and tab char trimming.

commentchar = '#'

delimiter = ','

ignoreemptylines = True

quotechar = '"'

trimleft = ' \t\n\r'

trimright = ' \t\n\r'

class csvlike.csv.Dialect

Bases: object

Abstract base class for Dialect

commentchar = None

delimiter = None

quotechar = None

trimleft = None

trimright = None

exception csvlike.csv.InvalidDialectError

Bases: ValueError

An invalid dialect was supplied

class csvlike.csv.Line(iterable=(), /)

Bases: list

property lineno

class csvlike.csv.Reader(file: TextIO, dialect: csvlike.csv.Dialect, debug=None)

Bases: object

CSV-like file reader with support for comment chars, ignoring empty lines and whitespace trimming on both sides of each field.

exception csvlike.csv.UnallowedQuoteError(message, line, char, index)

Bases: csvlike.csv.CSVParserError

A quote is not allowed there

exception csvlike.csv.UnclosedQuoteError(message, line, char, index)

Bases: csvlike.csv.CSVParserError

A quote wasn't properly closed

exception csvlike.csv.UnknownDialectError

Bases: ValueError

An unknown dialect was requested

class csvlike.csv.WhitespaceDialect

Bases: csvlike.csv.DefaultDialect

Same as default Dialect, but with spaces also trimmed.

delimiter = ' \t'

csvlike.csv.reader(file: TextIO, dialect: Union[None, str, csvlike.csv.Dialect] = None, **kwargs) → csvlike.csv.Reader