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2"""
3csv.py - read/write/investigate CSV files
4"""
5
6import re
Brett Cannon9fc56312008-08-09 23:39:11 +00007from functools import reduce
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +00008from _csv import Error, __version__, writer, reader, register_dialect, \
9 unregister_dialect, get_dialect, list_dialects, \
Andrew McNamara31d88962005-01-12 03:45:10 +000010 field_size_limit, \
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000011 QUOTE_MINIMAL, QUOTE_ALL, QUOTE_NONNUMERIC, QUOTE_NONE, \
12 __doc__
Andrew McNamara7130ff52005-01-11 02:22:47 +000013from _csv import Dialect as _Dialect
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000014
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +000015try:
16 from cStringIO import StringIO
17except ImportError:
18 from StringIO import StringIO
19
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000020__all__ = [ "QUOTE_MINIMAL", "QUOTE_ALL", "QUOTE_NONNUMERIC", "QUOTE_NONE",
Brett Cannon88f801d2008-08-18 00:46:22 +000021 "Error", "Dialect", "__doc__", "excel", "excel_tab",
22 "field_size_limit", "reader", "writer",
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000023 "register_dialect", "get_dialect", "list_dialects", "Sniffer",
24 "unregister_dialect", "__version__", "DictReader", "DictWriter" ]
25
26class Dialect:
Skip Montanarof26285c2005-01-05 06:54:58 +000027 """Describe an Excel dialect.
28
29 This must be subclassed (see csv.excel). Valid attributes are:
30 delimiter, quotechar, escapechar, doublequote, skipinitialspace,
31 lineterminator, quoting.
32
33 """
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000034 _name = ""
35 _valid = False
36 # placeholders
37 delimiter = None
38 quotechar = None
39 escapechar = None
40 doublequote = None
41 skipinitialspace = None
42 lineterminator = None
43 quoting = None
44
45 def __init__(self):
46 if self.__class__ != Dialect:
47 self._valid = True
Andrew McNamara7130ff52005-01-11 02:22:47 +000048 self._validate()
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000049
50 def _validate(self):
Andrew McNamara7130ff52005-01-11 02:22:47 +000051 try:
52 _Dialect(self)
53 except TypeError, e:
54 # We do this for compatibility with py2.3
55 raise Error(str(e))
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000056
57class excel(Dialect):
Skip Montanarof26285c2005-01-05 06:54:58 +000058 """Describe the usual properties of Excel-generated CSV files."""
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000059 delimiter = ','
60 quotechar = '"'
61 doublequote = True
62 skipinitialspace = False
63 lineterminator = '\r\n'
64 quoting = QUOTE_MINIMAL
65register_dialect("excel", excel)
66
67class excel_tab(excel):
Skip Montanarof26285c2005-01-05 06:54:58 +000068 """Describe the usual properties of Excel-generated TAB-delimited files."""
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000069 delimiter = '\t'
70register_dialect("excel-tab", excel_tab)
71
72
73class DictReader:
Skip Montanarodffeed32003-10-03 14:03:01 +000074 def __init__(self, f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None,
Skip Montanaro3f7a9482003-09-06 19:52:12 +000075 dialect="excel", *args, **kwds):
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +000076 self._fieldnames = fieldnames # list of keys for the dict
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000077 self.restkey = restkey # key to catch long rows
78 self.restval = restval # default value for short rows
Skip Montanaro3f7a9482003-09-06 19:52:12 +000079 self.reader = reader(f, dialect, *args, **kwds)
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +000080 self.dialect = dialect
81 self.line_num = 0
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +000082
83 def __iter__(self):
84 return self
85
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +000086 @property
87 def fieldnames(self):
88 if self._fieldnames is None:
89 try:
90 self._fieldnames = self.reader.next()
91 except StopIteration:
92 pass
93 self.line_num = self.reader.line_num
94 return self._fieldnames
95
96 @fieldnames.setter
97 def fieldnames(self, value):
98 self._fieldnames = value
99
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000100 def next(self):
Skip Montanaroa032bf42008-08-08 22:52:51 +0000101 if self.line_num == 0:
102 # Used only for its side effect.
103 self.fieldnames
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000104 row = self.reader.next()
Georg Brandl77354cf2008-03-21 20:01:51 +0000105 self.line_num = self.reader.line_num
Skip Montanarodffeed32003-10-03 14:03:01 +0000106
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000107 # unlike the basic reader, we prefer not to return blanks,
108 # because we will typically wind up with a dict full of None
109 # values
110 while row == []:
111 row = self.reader.next()
112 d = dict(zip(self.fieldnames, row))
113 lf = len(self.fieldnames)
114 lr = len(row)
115 if lf < lr:
116 d[self.restkey] = row[lf:]
117 elif lf > lr:
118 for key in self.fieldnames[lr:]:
119 d[key] = self.restval
120 return d
121
122
123class DictWriter:
124 def __init__(self, f, fieldnames, restval="", extrasaction="raise",
Skip Montanaro3f7a9482003-09-06 19:52:12 +0000125 dialect="excel", *args, **kwds):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000126 self.fieldnames = fieldnames # list of keys for the dict
127 self.restval = restval # for writing short dicts
128 if extrasaction.lower() not in ("raise", "ignore"):
129 raise ValueError, \
130 ("extrasaction (%s) must be 'raise' or 'ignore'" %
131 extrasaction)
132 self.extrasaction = extrasaction
Skip Montanaro3f7a9482003-09-06 19:52:12 +0000133 self.writer = writer(f, dialect, *args, **kwds)
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000134
135 def _dict_to_list(self, rowdict):
136 if self.extrasaction == "raise":
Georg Brandl94fe3f52007-03-13 09:32:11 +0000137 wrong_fields = [k for k in rowdict if k not in self.fieldnames]
138 if wrong_fields:
139 raise ValueError("dict contains fields not in fieldnames: " +
140 ", ".join(wrong_fields))
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000141 return [rowdict.get(key, self.restval) for key in self.fieldnames]
142
143 def writerow(self, rowdict):
144 return self.writer.writerow(self._dict_to_list(rowdict))
145
146 def writerows(self, rowdicts):
147 rows = []
148 for rowdict in rowdicts:
149 rows.append(self._dict_to_list(rowdict))
150 return self.writer.writerows(rows)
151
Raymond Hettinger39a55922003-06-12 03:01:55 +0000152# Guard Sniffer's type checking against builds that exclude complex()
153try:
154 complex
155except NameError:
156 complex = float
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000157
158class Sniffer:
159 '''
160 "Sniffs" the format of a CSV file (i.e. delimiter, quotechar)
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000161 Returns a Dialect object.
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000162 '''
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000163 def __init__(self):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000164 # in case there is more than one possible delimiter
165 self.preferred = [',', '\t', ';', ' ', ':']
166
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000167
Skip Montanaro77892372003-05-19 15:33:36 +0000168 def sniff(self, sample, delimiters=None):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000169 """
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000170 Returns a dialect (or None) corresponding to the sample
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000171 """
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000172
173 quotechar, delimiter, skipinitialspace = \
Skip Montanaro77892372003-05-19 15:33:36 +0000174 self._guess_quote_and_delimiter(sample, delimiters)
Skip Montanaro39b29be2005-12-30 05:09:48 +0000175 if not delimiter:
Skip Montanaro77892372003-05-19 15:33:36 +0000176 delimiter, skipinitialspace = self._guess_delimiter(sample,
177 delimiters)
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000178
Skip Montanaro39b29be2005-12-30 05:09:48 +0000179 if not delimiter:
180 raise Error, "Could not determine delimiter"
181
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000182 class dialect(Dialect):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000183 _name = "sniffed"
184 lineterminator = '\r\n'
Fred Drake7c852f32003-04-25 14:27:00 +0000185 quoting = QUOTE_MINIMAL
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000186 # escapechar = ''
187 doublequote = False
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000188
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000189 dialect.delimiter = delimiter
190 # _csv.reader won't accept a quotechar of ''
191 dialect.quotechar = quotechar or '"'
192 dialect.skipinitialspace = skipinitialspace
193
194 return dialect
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000195
196
Skip Montanaro77892372003-05-19 15:33:36 +0000197 def _guess_quote_and_delimiter(self, data, delimiters):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000198 """
199 Looks for text enclosed between two identical quotes
200 (the probable quotechar) which are preceded and followed
201 by the same character (the probable delimiter).
202 For example:
203 ,'some text',
204 The quote with the most wins, same with the delimiter.
205 If there is no quotechar the delimiter can't be determined
206 this way.
207 """
208
209 matches = []
210 for restr in ('(?P<delim>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?P=delim)', # ,".*?",
211 '(?:^|\n)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?P<delim>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)', # ".*?",
212 '(?P<delim>>[^\w\n"\'])(?P<space> ?)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?:$|\n)', # ,".*?"
213 '(?:^|\n)(?P<quote>["\']).*?(?P=quote)(?:$|\n)'): # ".*?" (no delim, no space)
Fred Drake6f7b2132003-09-02 16:01:07 +0000214 regexp = re.compile(restr, re.DOTALL | re.MULTILINE)
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000215 matches = regexp.findall(data)
216 if matches:
217 break
218
219 if not matches:
220 return ('', None, 0) # (quotechar, delimiter, skipinitialspace)
221
222 quotes = {}
223 delims = {}
224 spaces = 0
225 for m in matches:
226 n = regexp.groupindex['quote'] - 1
227 key = m[n]
228 if key:
229 quotes[key] = quotes.get(key, 0) + 1
230 try:
231 n = regexp.groupindex['delim'] - 1
232 key = m[n]
233 except KeyError:
234 continue
Skip Montanaro77892372003-05-19 15:33:36 +0000235 if key and (delimiters is None or key in delimiters):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000236 delims[key] = delims.get(key, 0) + 1
237 try:
238 n = regexp.groupindex['space'] - 1
239 except KeyError:
240 continue
241 if m[n]:
242 spaces += 1
243
244 quotechar = reduce(lambda a, b, quotes = quotes:
245 (quotes[a] > quotes[b]) and a or b, quotes.keys())
246
247 if delims:
248 delim = reduce(lambda a, b, delims = delims:
249 (delims[a] > delims[b]) and a or b, delims.keys())
250 skipinitialspace = delims[delim] == spaces
251 if delim == '\n': # most likely a file with a single column
252 delim = ''
253 else:
254 # there is *no* delimiter, it's a single column of quoted data
255 delim = ''
256 skipinitialspace = 0
257
258 return (quotechar, delim, skipinitialspace)
259
260
Skip Montanaro77892372003-05-19 15:33:36 +0000261 def _guess_delimiter(self, data, delimiters):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000262 """
263 The delimiter /should/ occur the same number of times on
264 each row. However, due to malformed data, it may not. We don't want
265 an all or nothing approach, so we allow for small variations in this
266 number.
267 1) build a table of the frequency of each character on every line.
268 2) build a table of freqencies of this frequency (meta-frequency?),
269 e.g. 'x occurred 5 times in 10 rows, 6 times in 1000 rows,
270 7 times in 2 rows'
271 3) use the mode of the meta-frequency to determine the /expected/
272 frequency for that character
273 4) find out how often the character actually meets that goal
274 5) the character that best meets its goal is the delimiter
275 For performance reasons, the data is evaluated in chunks, so it can
276 try and evaluate the smallest portion of the data possible, evaluating
277 additional chunks as necessary.
278 """
279
280 data = filter(None, data.split('\n'))
281
282 ascii = [chr(c) for c in range(127)] # 7-bit ASCII
283
284 # build frequency tables
285 chunkLength = min(10, len(data))
286 iteration = 0
287 charFrequency = {}
288 modes = {}
289 delims = {}
290 start, end = 0, min(chunkLength, len(data))
291 while start < len(data):
292 iteration += 1
293 for line in data[start:end]:
294 for char in ascii:
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000295 metaFrequency = charFrequency.get(char, {})
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000296 # must count even if frequency is 0
Skip Montanaro91bb70c2005-12-28 15:37:25 +0000297 freq = line.count(char)
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000298 # value is the mode
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000299 metaFrequency[freq] = metaFrequency.get(freq, 0) + 1
300 charFrequency[char] = metaFrequency
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000301
302 for char in charFrequency.keys():
303 items = charFrequency[char].items()
304 if len(items) == 1 and items[0][0] == 0:
305 continue
306 # get the mode of the frequencies
307 if len(items) > 1:
308 modes[char] = reduce(lambda a, b: a[1] > b[1] and a or b,
309 items)
310 # adjust the mode - subtract the sum of all
311 # other frequencies
312 items.remove(modes[char])
313 modes[char] = (modes[char][0], modes[char][1]
314 - reduce(lambda a, b: (0, a[1] + b[1]),
315 items)[1])
316 else:
317 modes[char] = items[0]
318
319 # build a list of possible delimiters
320 modeList = modes.items()
321 total = float(chunkLength * iteration)
322 # (rows of consistent data) / (number of rows) = 100%
323 consistency = 1.0
324 # minimum consistency threshold
325 threshold = 0.9
326 while len(delims) == 0 and consistency >= threshold:
327 for k, v in modeList:
328 if v[0] > 0 and v[1] > 0:
Skip Montanaro77892372003-05-19 15:33:36 +0000329 if ((v[1]/total) >= consistency and
330 (delimiters is None or k in delimiters)):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000331 delims[k] = v
332 consistency -= 0.01
333
334 if len(delims) == 1:
335 delim = delims.keys()[0]
336 skipinitialspace = (data[0].count(delim) ==
337 data[0].count("%c " % delim))
338 return (delim, skipinitialspace)
339
340 # analyze another chunkLength lines
341 start = end
342 end += chunkLength
343
344 if not delims:
345 return ('', 0)
346
347 # if there's more than one, fall back to a 'preferred' list
348 if len(delims) > 1:
349 for d in self.preferred:
350 if d in delims.keys():
351 skipinitialspace = (data[0].count(d) ==
352 data[0].count("%c " % d))
353 return (d, skipinitialspace)
354
Skip Montanaro39b29be2005-12-30 05:09:48 +0000355 # nothing else indicates a preference, pick the character that
356 # dominates(?)
357 items = [(v,k) for (k,v) in delims.items()]
358 items.sort()
359 delim = items[-1][1]
360
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000361 skipinitialspace = (data[0].count(delim) ==
362 data[0].count("%c " % delim))
363 return (delim, skipinitialspace)
364
365
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000366 def has_header(self, sample):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000367 # Creates a dictionary of types of data in each column. If any
368 # column is of a single type (say, integers), *except* for the first
369 # row, then the first row is presumed to be labels. If the type
370 # can't be determined, it is assumed to be a string in which case
371 # the length of the string is the determining factor: if all of the
372 # rows except for the first are the same length, it's a header.
373 # Finally, a 'vote' is taken at the end for each column, adding or
374 # subtracting from the likelihood of the first row being a header.
375
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000376 rdr = reader(StringIO(sample), self.sniff(sample))
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000377
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000378 header = rdr.next() # assume first row is header
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000379
380 columns = len(header)
381 columnTypes = {}
382 for i in range(columns): columnTypes[i] = None
383
384 checked = 0
Skip Montanaro1448d472003-04-25 14:47:16 +0000385 for row in rdr:
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000386 # arbitrary number of rows to check, to keep it sane
387 if checked > 20:
388 break
389 checked += 1
390
391 if len(row) != columns:
392 continue # skip rows that have irregular number of columns
393
394 for col in columnTypes.keys():
Raymond Hettinger39a55922003-06-12 03:01:55 +0000395
396 for thisType in [int, long, float, complex]:
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000397 try:
Raymond Hettinger39a55922003-06-12 03:01:55 +0000398 thisType(row[col])
399 break
Raymond Hettingerabe14e62003-06-12 03:59:17 +0000400 except (ValueError, OverflowError):
Raymond Hettinger39a55922003-06-12 03:01:55 +0000401 pass
402 else:
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000403 # fallback to length of string
404 thisType = len(row[col])
405
Raymond Hettinger39a55922003-06-12 03:01:55 +0000406 # treat longs as ints
407 if thisType == long:
408 thisType = int
409
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000410 if thisType != columnTypes[col]:
411 if columnTypes[col] is None: # add new column type
412 columnTypes[col] = thisType
413 else:
414 # type is inconsistent, remove column from
415 # consideration
416 del columnTypes[col]
417
418 # finally, compare results against first row and "vote"
419 # on whether it's a header
420 hasHeader = 0
421 for col, colType in columnTypes.items():
422 if type(colType) == type(0): # it's a length
423 if len(header[col]) != colType:
424 hasHeader += 1
425 else:
426 hasHeader -= 1
427 else: # attempt typecast
428 try:
Raymond Hettinger39a55922003-06-12 03:01:55 +0000429 colType(header[col])
Raymond Hettingerf31cb0c2003-06-12 04:05:00 +0000430 except (ValueError, TypeError):
Skip Montanaro04ae7052003-04-24 20:21:31 +0000431 hasHeader += 1
432 else:
433 hasHeader -= 1
434
435 return hasHeader > 0