Re: Supported/Bundled CSV support?

[Stefan Monnier]

> I think having built-in CSV support that abstracts away the various
> details of parsing the various CSV variants will allow the emacs Dev
> community to focus on user solutions  e.g.:
>
> A. Seamless data import/export
> B. Support the processing of larger amounts of data via org-table and the like
> C. Json support vastly sped up modules like lsp and eglot; I'd expect
>    the same once we cross the chasm with respect to making CSV support
>    a built-in detail that elisp developers can take for granted.

You might be right, but if so you're talking about a very different kind
of "CSV support" than the kind I'm familiar with (which is the support
to manually edit/browse a human-generated CSV file, as offered by
`csv-mode`).  You seem to be talking about code to efficiently parse
a whole CSV file into a Lisp representation (list of lists or better) or
to generate a CSV-formatted string from such Lisp representation.

Is that right?  In that case, indeed `csv-mode` is of no
help, basically.


        Stefan


>> Just an idea/question:
>>
>> With the new Lars package vtable may be possible to support CSV or add
>> a package over it?
>>
>> I agree it is a bit annoying to depend of an external package for such
>> a simple format and maybe the implementation may be simpler than
>> expected as the format it pretty simple in general.
>>
>> WDYT?
>>
>> On March 14, 2022 11:30:43 PM GMT+01:00, Stefan Monnier
>> <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>>
>>     Languages like Python work around this with a csv module that
>>     comes
>> bundled; Emacs has a couple of modules out on elpa/melpa all of which
>> look old.
>>
>> Don't know about Melpa, but in (Non)GNU ELPA, I can only find one such
>> package and it dates back to Dec 2021.
>>
>>         Stefan