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diff Doc/lib/libcsv.tex @ 31408:e7124e26925f legacy-trunk
expand on notion of row object type
| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> |
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| date | Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:47:04 +0000 |
| parents | 1dc54225a4c2 |
| children | 2830d8e1af18 |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex Wed Jan 21 13:34:35 2004 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libcsv.tex Wed Jan 21 13:47:04 2004 +0000 @@ -285,8 +285,14 @@ \subsection{Writer Objects} -Writer objects (\class{DictWriter} instances and objects returned by -the \function{writer()} function) have the following public methods: +\class{Writer} objects (\class{DictWriter} instances and objects returned by +the \function{writer()} function) have the following public methods. A +{}\var{row} must be a sequence of strings or numbers for \class{Writer} +objects and a dictionary mapping fieldnames to strings or numbers (by +passing them through \function{str()} first) for {}\class{DictWriter} +objects. Note that complex numbers are written out surrounded by parens. +This may cause some problems for other programs which read CSV files +(assuming they support complex numbers at all). \begin{methoddesc}[csv writer]{writerow}{row} Write the \var{row} parameter to the writer's file object, formatted @@ -294,7 +300,8 @@ \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}[csv writer]{writerows}{rows} -Write all the \var{rows} parameters to the writer's file object, formatted +Write all the \var{rows} parameters (a list of \var{row} objects as +described above) to the writer's file object, formatted according to the current dialect. \end{methoddesc}
