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diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst index 533cdf13974..2e513bff651 100644 --- a/Doc/library/csv.rst +++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following functions: section :ref:`csv-fmt-params`. Each row read from the csv file is returned as a list of strings. No - automatic data type conversion is performed unless the ``QUOTE_NONNUMERIC`` format + automatic data type conversion is performed unless the :data:`QUOTE_NONNUMERIC` format option is specified (in which case unquoted fields are transformed into floats). A short usage example:: @@ -331,8 +331,14 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following constants: Instructs :class:`writer` objects to quote all non-numeric fields. - Instructs :class:`reader` objects to convert all non-quoted fields to type *float*. + Instructs :class:`reader` objects to convert all non-quoted fields to type :class:`float`. + .. note:: + Some numeric types, such as :class:`bool`, :class:`~fractions.Fraction`, + or :class:`~enum.IntEnum`, have a string representation that cannot be + converted to :class:`float`. + They cannot be read in the :data:`QUOTE_NONNUMERIC` and + :data:`QUOTE_STRINGS` modes. .. data:: QUOTE_NONE @@ -603,7 +609,7 @@ A slightly more advanced use of the reader --- catching and reporting errors:: for row in reader: print(row) except csv.Error as e: - sys.exit('file {}, line {}: {}'.format(filename, reader.line_num, e)) + sys.exit(f'file {filename}, line {reader.line_num}: {e}') And while the module doesn't directly support parsing strings, it can easily be done:: |