From 50de128e0d7a13ce52dc04a9b0b00b3fe7b7fc84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pablo Hoffman <pablo@pablohoffman.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:21:21 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] removed unused items_to_csv function

---
 scrapy/tests/test_utils_misc.py | 46 +--------------------------------
 scrapy/utils/misc.py            | 27 -------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 72 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scrapy/tests/test_utils_misc.py b/scrapy/tests/test_utils_misc.py
index d44930cd0..ab9f75f80 100644
--- a/scrapy/tests/test_utils_misc.py
+++ b/scrapy/tests/test_utils_misc.py
@@ -1,55 +1,11 @@
 import unittest
 from cStringIO import StringIO
 
-from scrapy.utils.misc import items_to_csv, load_object, arg_to_iter
+from scrapy.utils.misc import load_object, arg_to_iter
 from scrapy.item import ScrapedItem
 
 class UtilsMiscTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
-    def test_items_to_csv(self):
-        item_1 = ScrapedItem()
-        item_1._hidden = '543565'
-        item_1.id = '3213'
-        item_1.name = 'Item 1'
-        item_1.description = 'Really cute item'
-        item_1.url = 'http://dummyurl.com'
-
-        item_2 = ScrapedItem()
-        item_2._hidden = 'lala'
-        item_2.id = '1234'
-        item_2.name = 'Item 2'
-        item_2.description = 'This item rocks!'
-        item_2.url = 'http://dummyurl.com/2'
-        item_2.supplier = 'A random supplier'
-
-        file = StringIO()
-        items_to_csv(file, [item_1, item_2])
-        file.reset()
-        self.assertEqual(file.read(),
-            '"description";"id";"name";"url"\r\n' +
-            '"Really cute item";"3213";"Item 1";"http://dummyurl.com"\r\n' +
-            '"This item rocks!";"1234";"Item 2";"http://dummyurl.com/2"\r\n')
-
-        file = StringIO()
-        items_to_csv(file, [item_2, item_1])
-        file.reset()
-        self.assertEqual(file.read(),
-            '"description";"id";"name";"supplier";"url"\r\n' +
-            '"This item rocks!";"1234";"Item 2";"A random supplier";"http://dummyurl.com/2"\r\n' +
-            '"Really cute item";"3213";"Item 1";"";"http://dummyurl.com"\r\n')
-
-        file = StringIO()
-        items_to_csv(file, [item_1, item_2], headers=['id', 'name'], delimiter=',')
-        file.reset()
-        self.assertEqual(file.read(),
-            '"id","name"\r\n' +
-            '"3213","Item 1"\r\n' +
-            '"1234","Item 2"\r\n')
-
-        file = StringIO()
-        items_to_csv(file, [])
-        self.assertEqual(file.tell(), 0)
-
     def test_load_object(self):
         obj = load_object('scrapy.utils.misc.load_object')
         assert obj is load_object
diff --git a/scrapy/utils/misc.py b/scrapy/utils/misc.py
index 36bd5d5d2..7f45932e0 100644
--- a/scrapy/utils/misc.py
+++ b/scrapy/utils/misc.py
@@ -94,33 +94,6 @@ def extract_regex(regex, text, encoding):
     else:
         return [remove_entities(unicode(s, encoding), keep=['lt', 'amp']) for s in strings]
 
-def items_to_csv(file, items, delimiter=';', headers=None):
-    """
-    This function takes a list of items and stores their attributes
-    in a csv file given in 'file' (which can be either a descriptor, or a filename).
-    The saved attributes are either the ones found in the 'headers' parameter
-    (if specified) or the first item's list of public attributes.
-    The written file will be encoded as utf-8.
-    """
-    if not items or not hasattr(items, '__iter__'):
-        return
-
-    if isinstance(file, basestring):
-        file = open(file, 'ab+')
-    csv_file = csv.writer(file, delimiter=delimiter, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL)
-    header = headers or sorted([key for key in items[0].__dict__.keys() if not key.startswith('_')])
-    if not file.tell():
-        csv_file.writerow(header)
-
-    for item in items:
-        row = []
-        for attrib in header:
-            value = getattr(item, attrib, None)
-            value = unicode_to_str(value) if isinstance(value, basestring) else value
-            row.append(value)
-        csv_file.writerow(row)
-
-
 def md5sum(buffer):
     """Calculate the md5 checksum of a file