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| author | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2008-01-06 17:05:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Christian Heimes <christian@cheimes.de> | 2008-01-06 17:05:40 (GMT) |
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r59774 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:41:50 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1501: document that 0**0 == 1.
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r59775 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:48:20 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#759525: document that dir() doesn't return metaclass attrs when given a class as arg.
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r59776 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 16:55:26 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1615275: clarify return object types of different tempfile factories.
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r59777 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:01:26 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1727024: document that Popen.returncode is set by Popen.poll/wait.
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r59778 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:04:56 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1686390: add example for csv.Sniffer use.
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r59779 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:12:39 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1559684: document that shutil.copy* doesn't copy all metadata on Posix and Windows too.
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r59780 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:17:56 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1582: document __reversed__, patch by Mark Russell.
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r59781 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:22:56 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1499: Document compile() exceptions.
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r59782 | georg.brandl | 2008-01-06 17:49:50 +0100 (Sun, 06 Jan 2008) | 2 lines
#1325: Add docs and tests for zipimporter.archive and zipimporter.prefix.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst index 678d4d7..56972f4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/csv.rst +++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst @@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes: The :class:`Sniffer` class provides two methods: - .. method:: Sniffer.sniff(sample[, delimiters=None]) Analyze the given *sample* and return a :class:`Dialect` subclass reflecting the @@ -224,9 +223,17 @@ The :class:`Sniffer` class provides two methods: Analyze the sample text (presumed to be in CSV format) and return :const:`True` if the first row appears to be a series of column headers. -The :mod:`csv` module defines the following constants: +An example for :class:`Sniffer` use:: + + csvfile = open("example.csv") + dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(csvfile.read(1024)) + csvfile.seek(0) + reader = csv.reader(csvfile, dialect) + # ... process CSV file contents here ... +The :mod:`csv` module defines the following constants: + .. data:: QUOTE_ALL Instructs :class:`writer` objects to quote all fields. |