CSV import with type detection

[timClicks]

It would be nice if dataset made loading data from CSV easy too. Currently, you need to go via the csv.DictReader boilerplate to get things into a database.

Perhaps I am whinging too much about needing to insert this code into the start of my IPython Notebooks?

with open('yummy-data.csv') as f:
    headers = csv.reader(f).next()

records = []

with open('yummy-data.csv') as f:
    reader = csv.DictReader(f, fieldnames=headers)
    for i, row in enumerate(reader):
        if i > 0:
            records.append(row)

[pudo]

IMO this would be out of scope, since parsing data is a bottomless pit and we have other libs to do it (e.g. messytables).

[gka]

yes, I too think this is out of scope