Documentation on loading data

[nickray]

I looked at this with the expectation of easily loading data as well as creating and exporting it. Something simple like

fd = open('somefile.csv')
tablib.import_set(fd)

doesn't seem to work. Or is this not an intended use case?

[schmidtphil]

not intended, it needs a text reprasentation of the file:

fd = open('somefile.csv')
stream = fd.read()
tablib.import_set(stream)

[iurisilvio]

Yes, these docs should be improved.

The behaviour of import_set is format specific, some accept only filename, others accept stream/text/filename.

I'm reopening this issue to work on it.

[claudep]

If you still find the current documentation lacking, please provide suggestions.