Dialect

The Dialect class is a container class whose attributes contain information for how to handle doublequotes, whitespace, delimiters, etc. Due to the lack of a strict CSV specification, different applications produce subtly different CSV data. Dialect instances define how reader and writer instances behave.

Syntax

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class csv.Dialect

Examples

Example 1

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import csv

with open('students.csv', 'w', newline='') as csvfile:
    writer = csv.writer(csvfile, dialect='unix')

See Also

Dialect Dialect reader writer Dialect list_dialects() reader writer