From e75a00541d83c1df6ede20fec3a5611f960b6821 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Beltrame <einar@heavensinferno.net>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 10:45:54 +0200
Subject: Support for TSV-files. Unit-tested.

---
 tablib/formats/_tsv.py | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tablib/formats/_tsv.py

(limited to 'tablib/formats/_tsv.py')

diff --git a/tablib/formats/_tsv.py b/tablib/formats/_tsv.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8603c45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tablib/formats/_tsv.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+""" Tablib - TSV (Tab Separated Values) Support.
+"""
+
+import cStringIO
+import csv
+import os
+
+import tablib
+
+
+title = 'tsv'
+extentions = ('tsv',)
+
+
+
+def export_set(dataset):
+	"""Returns a TSV representation of Dataset."""
+	stream = cStringIO.StringIO()
+	_tsv = csv.writer(stream, delimiter="\t")
+
+	for row in dataset._package(dicts=False):
+		_tsv.writerow(row)
+
+	return stream.getvalue()
+
+
+def import_set(dset, in_stream, headers=True):
+	"""Returns dataset from TSV stream."""
+
+	dset.wipe()
+
+	rows = csv.reader(in_stream.split("\r\n"), delimiter="\t")
+	for i, row in enumerate(rows):
+
+		# Skip empty rows
+		if not row:
+			continue
+
+		if (i == 0) and (headers):
+			dset.headers = row
+		else:
+			dset.append(row)
+
+
+def detect(stream):
+	"""Returns True if given stream is valid TSV."""
+	try:
+		rows = dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(stream, delimiters="\t")
+		return True
+	except csv.Error:
+		return False
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