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- class platypush.plugins.csv.CsvPlugin(**kwargs)[source]
Bases:
Plugin
A plugin for managing CSV files.
- read(filename: str, delimiter: str = ',', quotechar: Optional[str] = '"', start: int = 0, limit: Optional[int] = None, reverse: bool = False, has_header: bool = None, column_names: Optional[List[str]] = None, dialect: str = 'excel')[source]
Gets the content of a CSV file.
- Parameters:
filename – Path of the file.
delimiter – Field delimiter (default:
,
).quotechar – Quote character (default:
"
).start – (Zero-based) index of the first line to be read (starting from the last if
reverse
is True) (default: 0).limit – Maximum number of lines to be read (default: all).
reverse – If True then the lines will be read starting from the last (default: False).
has_header – Set to True if the first row of the file is a header, False if the first row isn’t expected to be a header (default: None, the method will scan the first chunk of the file and estimate whether the first line is a header).
column_names – Specify if the file has no header or you want to override the column names.
dialect – CSV dialect (default:
excel
).
- static reversed_blocks(f: TextIO, blocksize=4096)[source]
Generate blocks of file’s contents in reverse order.
- write(filename: str, rows: List[Union[List[Any], Dict[str, Any]]], truncate: bool = False, delimiter: str = ',', quotechar: Optional[str] = '"', dialect: str = 'excel')[source]
Writes lines to a CSV file.
- Parameters:
filename – Path of the CSV file.
rows – Rows to write. It can be a list of lists or a key->value dictionary where the keys match the names of the columns. If the rows are dictionaries then a header with the column names will be written to the file if not available already, otherwise no header will be written.
truncate – If True then any previous file content will be removed, otherwise the new rows will be appended to the file (default: False).
delimiter – Field delimiter (default:
,
).quotechar – Quote character (default:
"
).dialect – CSV dialect (default:
excel
).