13. File Formats

The modules described in this chapter parse various miscellaneous file formats that arent markup languages or are related to e-mail.

• 13.1. csv CSV File Reading and Writing
  • 13.1.1. Module Contents
  • 13.1.2. Dialects and Formatting Parameters
  • 13.1.3. Reader Objects
  • 13.1.4. Writer Objects
  • 13.1.5. Examples
• 13.2. ConfigParser Configuration file parser
  • 13.2.1. RawConfigParser Objects
  • 13.2.2. ConfigParser Objects
  • 13.2.3. SafeConfigParser Objects
  • 13.2.4. Examples
• 13.3. robotparser Parser for robots.txt
• 13.4. netrc netrc file processing
  • 13.4.1. netrc Objects
• 13.5. xdrlib Encode and decode XDR data
  • 13.5.1. Packer Objects
  • 13.5.2. Unpacker Objects
  • 13.5.3. Exceptions
• 13.6. plistlib Generate and parse Mac OS X .plist files
  • 13.6.1. Examples