File Formats
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The modules described in this chapter parse various miscellaneous file
formats that aren't markup languages and are not related to e-mail.

* "csv" --- CSV File Reading and Writing

  * Module Contents

    * "reader()"

    * "writer()"

    * "register_dialect()"

    * "unregister_dialect()"

    * "get_dialect()"

    * "list_dialects()"

    * "field_size_limit()"

    * "DictReader"

    * "DictWriter"

    * "Dialect"

    * "excel"

    * "excel_tab"

    * "unix_dialect"

    * "Sniffer"

      * "sniff()"

      * "has_header()"

    * "QUOTE_ALL"

    * "QUOTE_MINIMAL"

    * "QUOTE_NONNUMERIC"

    * "QUOTE_NONE"

    * "QUOTE_NOTNULL"

    * "QUOTE_STRINGS"

    * "Error"

  * Dialects and Formatting Parameters

    * "delimiter"

    * "doublequote"

    * "escapechar"

    * "lineterminator"

    * "quotechar"

    * "quoting"

    * "skipinitialspace"

    * "strict"

  * Reader Objects

    * "__next__()"

    * "dialect"

    * "line_num"

    * "fieldnames"

  * Writer Objects

    * "writerow()"

    * "writerows()"

    * "dialect"

    * "writeheader()"

  * Examples

* "configparser" --- Configuration file parser

  * Quick Start

  * Supported Datatypes

  * Fallback Values

  * Supported INI File Structure

  * Unnamed Sections

  * Interpolation of values

    * "BasicInterpolation"

    * "ExtendedInterpolation"

  * Mapping Protocol Access

  * Customizing Parser Behaviour

    * "BOOLEAN_STATES"

    * "SECTCRE"

  * Legacy API Examples

  * ConfigParser Objects

    * "ConfigParser"

      * "defaults()"

      * "sections()"

      * "add_section()"

      * "has_section()"

      * "options()"

      * "has_option()"

      * "read()"

      * "read_file()"

      * "read_string()"

      * "read_dict()"

      * "get()"

      * "getint()"

      * "getfloat()"

      * "getboolean()"

      * "items()"

      * "set()"

      * "write()"

      * "remove_option()"

      * "remove_section()"

      * "optionxform()"

    * "UNNAMED_SECTION"

    * "MAX_INTERPOLATION_DEPTH"

  * RawConfigParser Objects

    * "RawConfigParser"

      * "add_section()"

      * "set()"

  * Exceptions

    * "Error"

    * "NoSectionError"

    * "DuplicateSectionError"

    * "DuplicateOptionError"

    * "NoOptionError"

    * "InterpolationError"

    * "InterpolationDepthError"

    * "InterpolationMissingOptionError"

    * "InterpolationSyntaxError"

    * "MissingSectionHeaderError"

    * "ParsingError"

    * "MultilineContinuationError"

* "tomllib" --- Parse TOML files

  * "load()"

  * "loads()"

  * "TOMLDecodeError"

  * Examples

  * Conversion Table

* "netrc" --- netrc file processing

  * "netrc"

  * "NetrcParseError"

    * "msg"

    * "filename"

    * "lineno"

  * netrc Objects

    * "authenticators()"

    * "__repr__()"

    * "hosts"

    * "macros"

* "plistlib" --- Generate and parse Apple ".plist" files

  * "load()"

  * "loads()"

  * "dump()"

  * "dumps()"

  * "UID"

  * "FMT_XML"

  * "FMT_BINARY"

  * Examples
