Laurent Laporte wrote:
> I'm using cvs standard module under Python 2.3 / 2.4 to write a file
> delimited with tabs. I use the "excel-tab" dialect to do that.
>
> To read my CSV file, I choose to 'sniff' with a sample data in order to
> get the dialect.
> The problem I meet is that I get a wrong dialect: the sniffer return an
> empty string delimiter. It is probably a bug in _guess_delimiter()
> method.
>
> The message I obtain is:
> TypeError: bad argument type for built-in operation
>
> Do you know a way to sniff tab-delimited data ?
> Is it a known bug ?
http://www.python.org/sf/1157169
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