alan-turing-institute/CleverCSV

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

CleverCSV is a Python package that provides a drop-in replacement for the built-in csv module with improved dialect detection for messy CSV files. It also includes a command-line tool for standardizing messy files and generating Python import code.

Use cases

• detect the delimiter of a messy csv file
• parse csv files with unknown formatting in python
• standardize inconsistent csv files
• generate python code to import a csv file
• replace python csv module with better dialect detection
• clean up csv files before data analysis

When to choose

• you need to read CSV files with unknown or inconsistent dialects
• you want a drop-in replacement for Python's csv module
• you need CLI utilities to normalize or inspect CSV files

When to avoid

• you only handle well-formed, consistent CSV files
• you need CSV handling in a language other than Python

Facets

library · maturity active

parser csv cli data-science data-science files developer-tools parsers python cli cross-platform csv-dialect-detection drop-in-replacement messy-data data-wrangling

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