From: Berker Peksag Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2017 06:32:56 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Issue #16026: Fix parameter names of DictReader and DictWriter X-Git-Tag: v3.6.1rc1~202 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=631ada842454dbb18beb8d3677bd37569be153c8;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Issue #16026: Fix parameter names of DictReader and DictWriter CPython and PyPy use f as the name of the first parameter of DictReader and DictWriter classes. Patch by James Salt and Greg Bengeult. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst index f916572fd5d4..52a8a310ec9d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/csv.rst +++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following functions: The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes: -.. class:: DictReader(csvfile, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None, \ +.. class:: DictReader(f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None, \ dialect='excel', *args, **kwds) Create an object that operates like a regular reader but maps the @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes: whose keys are given by the optional *fieldnames* parameter. The *fieldnames* parameter is a :term:`sequence`. If *fieldnames* is - omitted, the values in the first row of the *csvfile* will be used as the + omitted, the values in the first row of file *f* will be used as the fieldnames. Regardless of how the fieldnames are determined, the ordered dictionary preserves their original ordering. @@ -184,14 +184,14 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes: OrderedDict([('first_name', 'John'), ('last_name', 'Cleese')]) -.. class:: DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames, restval='', extrasaction='raise', \ +.. class:: DictWriter(f, fieldnames, restval='', extrasaction='raise', \ dialect='excel', *args, **kwds) Create an object which operates like a regular writer but maps dictionaries onto output rows. The *fieldnames* parameter is a :mod:`sequence ` of keys that identify the order in which values in the - dictionary passed to the :meth:`writerow` method are written to the - *csvfile*. The optional *restval* parameter specifies the value to be + dictionary passed to the :meth:`writerow` method are written to file + *f*. The optional *restval* parameter specifies the value to be written if the dictionary is missing a key in *fieldnames*. If the dictionary passed to the :meth:`writerow` method contains a key not found in *fieldnames*, the optional *extrasaction* parameter indicates what action to @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes: Note that unlike the :class:`DictReader` class, the *fieldnames* parameter of the :class:`DictWriter` is not optional. Since Python's :class:`dict` objects are not ordered, there is not enough information available to deduce - the order in which the row should be written to the *csvfile*. + the order in which the row should be written to file *f*. A short usage example::