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authorGeoff Crompton <geoffc@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>2016-01-18 12:13:15 +1100
committerGeoff Crompton <geoffc@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>2016-01-18 12:13:15 +1100
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Adding Rows
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+Importing Data
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+Creating a :class:`tablib.Dataset` object by importing a pre-existing file is simple. ::
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+ imported_data = tablib.import_set(open('data.csv').read())
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+This detects what sort of data is being passed in, and uses an appropriate formatter to do the import. So you can import from a variety of different file types.
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Exporting Data
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