csvkit.unicsv

This module contains unicode aware replacements for csv.reader() and csv.writer(). The implementations are largely copied from examples in the csv module documentation.

These classes are available for Python 2 only. The Python 3 version of csv supports unicode internally.

Note

You probably don’t want to use these classes directly. Try the csvkit module.

class csvkit.unicsv.UTF8Recoder(f, encoding)

Iterator that reads an encoded stream and reencodes the input to UTF-8.

next()

class csvkit.unicsv.UnicodeCSVReader(f, encoding='utf-8', maxfieldsize=None, **kwargs)

A CSV reader which will read rows from a file in a given encoding.

next()

line_num

class csvkit.unicsv.UnicodeCSVWriter(f, encoding='utf-8', **kwargs)

A CSV writer which will write rows to a file in the specified encoding.

NB: Optimized so that eight-bit encodings skip re-encoding. See:

https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit/issues/175

writerow(row)

writerows(rows)

class csvkit.unicsv.UnicodeCSVDictReader(f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None, *args, **kwargs)

Defer almost all implementation to csv.DictReader, but wraps our unicode reader instead of csv.reader().

fieldnames

next()

class csvkit.unicsv.UnicodeCSVDictWriter(f, fieldnames, restval='', extrasaction='raise', *args, **kwds)

Defer almost all implementation to csv.DictWriter, but wraps our unicode writer instead of csv.writer().

writerow(rowdict)

writerows(rowdicts)

writeheader()