The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes:
-.. class:: DictReader(csvfile, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None, \
+.. class:: DictReader(f, fieldnames=None, restkey=None, restval=None, \
dialect='excel', *args, **kwds)
Create an object which operates like a regular reader but maps the
<collections-abstract-base-classes>` whose elements are associated with the
fields of the input data in order. These elements become the keys of the
resulting dictionary. If the *fieldnames* parameter is omitted, the values
- in the first row of the *csvfile* will be used as the fieldnames. If the
+ in the first row of the file *f* will be used as the fieldnames. If the
row read has more fields than the fieldnames sequence, the remaining data is
added as a sequence keyed by the value of *restkey*. If the row read has
fewer fields than the fieldnames sequence, the remaining keys take the value
Wonderful Spam
-.. class:: DictWriter(csvfile, fieldnames, restval='', extrasaction='raise', \
+.. class:: DictWriter(f, fieldnames, restval='', extrasaction='raise', \
dialect='excel', *args, **kwds)
Create an object which operates like a regular writer but maps dictionaries
onto output rows. The *fieldnames* parameter is a :ref:`sequence
<collections-abstract-base-classes>` of keys that identify the order in
which values in the dictionary passed to the :meth:`writerow` method are
- written to the *csvfile*. The optional *restval* parameter specifies the
+ written to the file *f*. The optional *restval* parameter specifies the
value to be written if the dictionary is missing a key in *fieldnames*. If
the dictionary passed to the :meth:`writerow` method contains a key not
found in *fieldnames*, the optional *extrasaction* parameter indicates what
Note that unlike the :class:`DictReader` class, the *fieldnames* parameter
of the :class:`DictWriter` is not optional. Since Python's :class:`dict`
objects are not ordered, there is not enough information available to deduce
- the order in which the row should be written to the *csvfile*.
+ the order in which the row should be written to the file *f*.
A short usage example::