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Subject: Re: Odd csv column-name truncation with only one column
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:09:13 -0400
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:59:24 +0200, Hans Mulder <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:


> The sniffer will always guess '\r\n' as the line terminator.
> 
> That should not stop you from creating a dialect with '\x1E' as
> the line terminator.  Just don't expect the sniffer to recognize
> that dialect.
>
	{devil's advocate}: Maybe it's time to expand the CSV module... Of
course, if we set it to recognize x1E as a record separator, we should
be fair and also incorporate the other two ASCII "separator" codes. 

	x1D (group separator) could be used to signal a "new table" -- ie; a
change in record structure (number of columns, header labels). And then
x1C (file separator) could represent a new "worksheet" (in Excel terms).

	We'd need some sort of flag/query method to detect these changes, of
course.

	while not csv.EndOfSheet():
		while not csv.EndOfTable():
			...

	And then there is the potential of using <VT> and <FF> as
equivalents for x1D and x1C (for those files using <TAB> and <CR><LF> as
field/record separators).

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