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Make the fieldnames argument optional in the DictReader. If self.fieldnames

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is None, the next row read is used as the fieldnames.  In the common case,
this means the programmer doesn't need to know the fieldnames ahead of time.
The first row of the file will be used.  In the uncommon case, this means
the programmer can set the reader's fieldnames attribute to None at any time
and have the next row read as the next set of fieldnames, so a csv file can
contain several "sections", each with different fieldnames.
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Skip Montanaro 2003-10-03 14:03:01 +00:00
parent 3bbd6543a0
commit dffeed3ffa
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@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ register_dialect("excel-tab", excel_tab)
class DictReader:
def __init__(self, f, fieldnames, restkey=None, restval=None,
def __init__(self, f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None,
dialect="excel", *args, **kwds):
self.fieldnames = fieldnames # list of keys for the dict
self.restkey = restkey # key to catch long rows
@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ class DictReader:
def next(self):
row = self.reader.next()
if self.fieldnames is None:
self.fieldnames = row
row = self.reader.next()
# unlike the basic reader, we prefer not to return blanks,
# because we will typically wind up with a dict full of None
# values