Support for tab delimiter

[mdraw]

Is there a way to specify the tab character as the delimiter in the CLI?

If I run

$ csvtotable <tabseperatedcsv.csv> /tmp/out.html -d '\t'

the following error occurs:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/csvtotable", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('csvtotable==1.1.0', 'console_scripts', 'csvtotable')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/csvtotable/cli.py", line 30, in cli
    delimiter=delimiter, quotechar=quotechar)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/csvtotable/convert.py", line 49, in convert
    delimiter=delimiter, quotechar=quotechar)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/unicodecsv/py2.py", line 110, in __init__
    self.reader = csv.reader(f, dialect, **kwds)
TypeError: "delimiter" must be an 1-character string

This also happens with Python 3.6.1.

[shaunpud]

Try running it with;

csvtotable <tabseperatedcsv.csv> /tmp/out.html -d $'\t'

[mdraw]

Thanks @shaunpud, this works in bash and zsh.
In fish (which is my main shell) the dollar sign doesn't work that way, but I found out that you just have to write it without quotes to make fish understand it(→ fish-shell/fish-shell#1338):

csvtotable <tabseperatedcsv.csv> /tmp/out.html -d \t

I see now that this is an issue with shells, not with csvtotable, so I will close this.