backports.csv 1.0

Installation

pip install backports.csv

Usage

First make sure you’re starting your file off right:

from backports import csv

Then be careful with your files to handle the encoding. I suggest using io.TextIOWrapper, opening your file in binary mode, and declaring your desired encoding when constructing your TextIOWrapper.

from backports import csv
from io import TextIOWrapper

def read_csv(filename):
    with TextIOWrapper(open(filename, 'rb'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
        reader = csv.reader(f)
        for row in reader:
            yield row

def write_csv(filename, rows):
    with TextIOWrapper(open(filename, 'wb'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
        writer = csv.writer(f)
        for row in rows:
            writer.writerow(row)

License

This is a port of the csv module in the Python 3 standard libary. Because of this, backports.csv follows the same license as Python, whatever that may be at any given point in time.