[Python-ideas] csv.DictReader could handle headers more intelligently.

Tue Jan 29 21:59:42 CET 2013

On 1/29/2013 3:37 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Eric V. Smith writes:
>> > True. But my point stands: it's possible to read the data (even with a
> > DictReader), do something with the data, and not know the column names
> > in advance. It's not an impossible use case.
>> But it is. Dicts don't guarantee iteration order, so you will most
> likely get an output file that not only has a different delimiter, but
> a different order of fields.

We're going to have to agree to disagree. Order is not always important.
-- 
Eric.