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diff Doc/lib/libcsv.tex @ 40040:7c34944d4c80 legacy-trunk
Note that the excel_tab class is registered as the "excel-tab" dialect.
Fixes 1572471. Make a similar change for the excel class and clean up
references to the Dialects and Formatting Parameters section in a few
places.
| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> |
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| date | Sat, 07 Oct 2006 11:05:02 +0000 |
| parents | 910151524f5e |
| children | e5782e2a412b |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex Fri Oct 06 18:51:55 2006 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex Sat Oct 07 11:05:02 2006 +0000 @@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ class or one of the strings returned by the \function{list_dialects} function. The other optional {}\var{fmtparam} keyword arguments can be given to override individual formatting parameters in the current -dialect. For more information about the dialect and formatting +dialect. For full details about the dialect and formatting parameters, see section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting -Parameters'' for details of these parameters. +Parameters''. All data read are returned as strings. No automatic data type conversion is performed. @@ -96,10 +96,10 @@ of a subclass of the \class{Dialect} class or one of the strings returned by the \function{list_dialects} function. The other optional {}\var{fmtparam} keyword arguments can be given to override individual -formatting parameters in the current dialect. For more information +formatting parameters in the current dialect. For full details about the dialect and formatting parameters, see -section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting Parameters'' for -details of these parameters. To make it as easy as possible to +section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting Parameters''. +To make it as easy as possible to interface with modules which implement the DB API, the value \constant{None} is written as the empty string. While this isn't a reversible transformation, it makes it easier to dump SQL NULL data values @@ -113,9 +113,8 @@ or Unicode object. The dialect can be specified either by passing a sub-class of \class{Dialect}, or by \var{fmtparam} keyword arguments, or both, with keyword arguments overriding parameters of the dialect. -For more information about the dialect and formatting parameters, see -section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting Parameters'' -for details of these parameters. +For full details about the dialect and formatting parameters, see +section~\ref{csv-fmt-params}, ``Dialects and Formatting Parameters''. \end{funcdesc} \begin{funcdesc}{unregister_dialect}{name} @@ -197,12 +196,13 @@ \begin{classdesc}{excel}{} The \class{excel} class defines the usual properties of an Excel-generated -CSV file. +CSV file. It is registered with the dialect name \code{'excel'}. \end{classdesc} \begin{classdesc}{excel_tab}{} The \class{excel_tab} class defines the usual properties of an -Excel-generated TAB-delimited file. +Excel-generated TAB-delimited file. It is registered with the dialect name +\code{'excel-tab'}. \end{classdesc} \begin{classdesc}{Sniffer}{}
