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authorThomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>2006-02-16 14:57:05 (GMT)
committerThomas Wouters <thomas@python.org>2006-02-16 14:57:05 (GMT)
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Fix broken example of csv.reader use (it returns an iterator, which isn't
indexable) by using the same 'for' construct as all other examples. (Also emphasizes that reading from a random iterable is no different than reading from a file.)
-rw-r--r--Doc/lib/libcsv.tex3
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex b/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
index 86d1025..22cfda5 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex
@@ -421,7 +421,8 @@ easily be done:
\begin{verbatim}
import csv
-print csv.reader(['one,two,three'])[0]
+for row in csv.reader(['one,two,three']):
+ print row
\end{verbatim}
The \module{csv} module doesn't directly support reading and writing