CSV reader and writer

Agate contains CSV readers and writers that are intended to be used as a drop-in replacement for csv. These versions add unicode support for Python 2 and several other minor features.

Agate methods will use these version automatically. If you would like to use them in your own code, you can import them, like this:

from agate import csv

Due to nuanced differences between the versions, these classes are implemented seperately for Python 2 and Python 3. The documentation for both versions is provided below, but only the one for your version of Python is imported with the above code.

Python 3

agate.csv_py3.reader	A replacement for Python’s csv.reader() that uses csv_py3.Reader.
agate.csv_py3.writer	A replacement for Python’s csv.writer() that uses csv_py3.Writer.
agate.csv_py3.Reader	A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.reader().
agate.csv_py3.Writer	A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.writer().
agate.csv_py3.DictReader	A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.DictReader.
agate.csv_py3.DictWriter	A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.DictWriter.

Python 2

agate.csv_py2.reader	A replacement for Python’s csv.reader() that uses csv_py2.Reader.
agate.csv_py2.writer	A replacement for Python’s csv.writer() that uses csv_py2.Writer.
agate.csv_py2.Reader	A unicode-aware CSV reader.
agate.csv_py2.Writer	A unicode-aware CSV writer.
agate.csv_py2.DictReader	A unicode-aware CSV DictReader.
agate.csv_py2.DictWriter	A unicode-aware CSV DictWriter.

Python 3 details

agate.csv_py3.reader(*args, **kwargs)

A replacement for Python’s csv.reader() that uses csv_py3.Reader.

agate.csv_py3.writer(*args, **kwargs)

A replacement for Python’s csv.writer() that uses csv_py3.Writer.

class agate.csv_py3.Reader(f, field_size_limit=None, line_numbers=False, header=True, **kwargs)

A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.reader().

class agate.csv_py3.Writer(f, line_numbers=False, **kwargs)

A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.writer().

class agate.csv_py3.DictReader(f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None, dialect='excel', *args, **kwds)

A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.DictReader.

class agate.csv_py3.DictWriter(f, fieldnames, line_numbers=False, **kwargs)

A wrapper around Python 3’s builtin csv.DictWriter.

Python 2 details

agate.csv_py2.reader(*args, **kwargs)

A replacement for Python’s csv.reader() that uses csv_py2.Reader.

agate.csv_py2.writer(*args, **kwargs)

A replacement for Python’s csv.writer() that uses csv_py2.Writer.

class agate.csv_py2.Reader(f, encoding='utf-8', field_size_limit=None, line_numbers=False, header=True, **kwargs)

A unicode-aware CSV reader.

class agate.csv_py2.Writer(f, encoding='utf-8', line_numbers=False, **kwargs)

A unicode-aware CSV writer.

class agate.csv_py2.DictReader(f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None, *args, **kwargs)

A unicode-aware CSV DictReader.

class agate.csv_py2.DictWriter(f, fieldnames, encoding='utf-8', line_numbers=False, **kwargs)

A unicode-aware CSV DictWriter.