Detects the delimiter used in CSV, TSV and other ad hoc file formats.
Use pip install detect_delimiter
detect_delimiter exposes the detect() functinon, which takes a str
as input and returns a delimiter.
>>> from detect_delimiter import detect
>>> detect("looks|like|the vertical bar\n is|the|delimiter\n")
'|'
When detect() doesn't know, it returns None:
>>> text = "not really any delimiters in here.\nthis is just text.\n"
>>> detect()
It's possible to provide a default, which will be used in that case:
>>> detect(text, default=',')
','
By default, detect() will prevent avoid checking alpha-numeric characters
and the period/full stop character ("."). This can be adjusted via
the blacklist parameter.
If you believe that you know the delimiter, it's possible to provide
a list of possible delimiters to check for via the whitelist parameter.
If you don't provide a value, [',', ';', ':', '|', '\t'] will be checked.
You can either use pytest or tox directly from the project's root directory.
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Detects the delimiter used in CSV, TSV and other ad hoc file formats.
We found that detect-delimiter demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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