[Docutils-develop] Re: "csv-table" directive added

[Felix W. <Fel...@gm...>]

Stephen Waterbury wrote:

> Felix Wiemann wrote:
>
>> David Goodger wrote:
>>
>>> David Priest's "csv-table" directive has been added to the
>>> reStructuredText parser.
>>
>> You didn't test for compatibility before, did you?  ;)
>
> You didn't check for other Python CSV modules, did you?  ;)

No, I didn't, to be honest.  :)

> Some other possibilities for pre-2.3 CSV support are:
>
> * Python-DSV ("delimiter-separated-values")
>   http://python-dsv.sourceforge.net/
>   (I haven't tried it, but it says "Python 2.0 or greater")

It isn't a drop-in replacement for the csv module, so it would require
hacking.

> * CSV module for Python (by Dave Cole,
>   who I think wrote the official one too)
>   http://www.object-craft.com.au/projects/csv/
>   (This one also appears to work with 2.0 or greater.)

Needs binary files.  (We can't easily compile things on Windows, can
we?)

However, thanks to your suggestions, I realized that it is actually very
easy to write a Python-only replacement (i.e. without binaries) for the
csv module, which will also work with Python 2.1/2.2, because Docutils
uses only a very limited number of features.  (E.g. no writing, only
reading of CSV data.)

Added to todo list, I'll implement that after the functional tests.

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