Merge: #19449: Handle non-string keys when generating 'fieldnames' error.

Lib/csv.py

@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ class DictWriter:
             wrong_fields = [k for k in rowdict if k not in self.fieldnames]
             if wrong_fields:
                 raise ValueError("dict contains fields not in fieldnames: "
-                                 + ", ".join(wrong_fields))
+                                 + ", ".join([repr(x) for x in wrong_fields]))
         return [rowdict.get(key, self.restval) for key in self.fieldnames]
 
     def writerow(self, rowdict):

Lib/test/test_csv.py

@@ -579,6 +579,18 @@ class TestDictFields(unittest.TestCase):
         fileobj = StringIO()
         self.assertRaises(TypeError, csv.DictWriter, fileobj)
 
+    def test_write_fields_not_in_fieldnames(self):
+        with TemporaryFile("w+", newline='') as fileobj:
+            writer = csv.DictWriter(fileobj, fieldnames = ["f1", "f2", "f3"])
+            # Of special note is the non-string key (issue 19449)
+            with self.assertRaises(ValueError) as cx:
+                writer.writerow({"f4": 10, "f2": "spam", 1: "abc"})
+            exception = str(cx.exception)
+            self.assertIn("fieldnames", exception)
+            self.assertIn("'f4'", exception)
+            self.assertNotIn("'f2'", exception)
+            self.assertIn("1", exception)
+
     def test_read_dict_fields(self):
         with TemporaryFile("w+") as fileobj:
             fileobj.write("1,2,abc\r\n")

Misc/NEWS

@@ -56,6 +56,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #19449: in csv's writerow, handle non-string keys when generating the
+  error message that certain keys are not in the 'fieldnames' list.
+
 - Issue #8402: Added the escape() function to the glob module.
 
 - Issue #17618: Add Base85 and Ascii85 encoding/decoding to the base64 module.