File Formats

The modules described in this chapter parse various miscellaneous file formats that aren’t markup languages and are not related to e-mail.

• csv — CSV File Reading and Writing
  • Module Contents
    • reader()
    • writer()
    • register_dialect()
    • unregister_dialect()
    • get_dialect()
    • list_dialects()
    • field_size_limit()
    • DictReader
    • DictWriter
    • Dialect
    • excel
    • excel_tab
    • unix_dialect
    • Sniffer
      • sniff()
      • has_header()
    • QUOTE_ALL
    • QUOTE_MINIMAL
    • QUOTE_NONNUMERIC
    • QUOTE_NONE
    • QUOTE_NOTNULL
    • QUOTE_STRINGS
    • Error
  • Dialects and Formatting Parameters
    • delimiter
    • doublequote
    • escapechar
    • lineterminator
    • quotechar
    • quoting
    • skipinitialspace
    • strict
  • Reader Objects
    • __next__()
    • dialect
    • line_num
    • fieldnames
  • Writer Objects
    • writerow()
    • writerows()
    • dialect
    • writeheader()
  • Examples
• configparser — Configuration file parser
  • Quick Start
  • Supported Datatypes
  • Fallback Values
  • Supported INI File Structure
  • Unnamed Sections
  • Interpolation of values
    • BasicInterpolation
    • ExtendedInterpolation
  • Mapping Protocol Access
  • Customizing Parser Behaviour
    • BOOLEAN_STATES
    • SECTCRE
  • Legacy API Examples
  • ConfigParser Objects
    • ConfigParser
      • defaults()
      • sections()
      • add_section()
      • has_section()
      • options()
      • has_option()
      • read()
      • read_file()
      • read_string()
      • read_dict()
      • get()
      • getint()
      • getfloat()
      • getboolean()
      • items()
      • set()
      • write()
      • remove_option()
      • remove_section()
      • optionxform()
    • UNNAMED_SECTION
    • MAX_INTERPOLATION_DEPTH
  • RawConfigParser Objects
    • RawConfigParser
      • add_section()
      • set()
  • Exceptions
    • Error
    • NoSectionError
    • DuplicateSectionError
    • DuplicateOptionError
    • NoOptionError
    • InterpolationError
    • InterpolationDepthError
    • InterpolationMissingOptionError
    • InterpolationSyntaxError
    • MissingSectionHeaderError
    • ParsingError
    • MultilineContinuationError
• tomllib — Parse TOML files
  • load()
  • loads()
  • TOMLDecodeError
  • Examples
  • Conversion Table
• netrc — netrc file processing
  • netrc
  • NetrcParseError
    • msg
    • filename
    • lineno
  • netrc Objects
    • authenticators()
    • __repr__()
    • hosts
    • macros
• plistlib — Generate and parse Apple .plist files
  • load()
  • loads()
  • dump()
  • dumps()
  • UID
  • FMT_XML
  • FMT_BINARY
  • Examples