- From: Alf Eaton <eaton.alf@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 18:27:19 +0000
- To: "public-csv-wg@w3.org" <public-csv-wg@w3.org>
Are there any plans to write a specification for a CSV parser, that would cover all the kinds of files described in the use cases? I had a go at an outline today[1], in an attempt to organise my thoughts about which parameters would be useful to a parser at which points during the process. pandas[2] is the closest tool I've found that incorporates most or all of these (particularly the generation of "multi-index" keys using multiple header rows and index columns), though it also includes a lot of parameters that are only relevant to parsing/transforming the values of each cell, which I think should probably be in a separate step. Alf [1] https://github.com/hubgit/csvw/wiki/CSV-Parsing [2] http://pandas.pydata.org/pandas-docs/stable/io.html#io-read-csv-table
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