<filename>PyMOTW/source/csv/csv_dialect_sniffer.py
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright (c) 2009 <NAME> All rights reserved.
#
"""
"""
#end_pymotw_header
import csv
from io import StringIO
import textwrap

csv.register_dialect('escaped',
                     escapechar='\\',
                     doublequote=False,
                     quoting=csv.QUOTE_NONE)
csv.register_dialect('singlequote',
                     quotechar="'",
                     quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)

# Generate sample data for all known dialects
samples = []
for name in sorted(csv.list_dialects()):
    buffer = StringIO()
    dialect = csv.get_dialect(name)
    writer = csv.writer(buffer, dialect=dialect)
    writer.writerow(
        ('col1', 1, '10/01/2010',
         'Special chars " \' {} to parse'.format(
             dialect.delimiter))
    )
    samples.append((name, dialect, buffer.getvalue()))

# Guess the dialect for a given sample, and then use the results
# to parse the data.
sniffer = csv.Sniffer()
for name, expected, sample in samples:
    print('Dialect: "{}"'.format(name))
    print('In: {}'.format(sample.rstrip()))
    dialect = sniffer.sniff(sample, delimiters=',\t')
    reader = csv.reader(StringIO(sample), dialect=dialect)
    print('Parsed:\n  {}\n'.format(
          '\n  '.join(repr(r) for r in next(reader))))
