From 1f0d68ee795660683b1160b7605614c572d759df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:56:44 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] utf-8-sig encoding for csv/tsv (for excel). Fixes #18.

---
 tablib/formats/_csv.py |  8 ++------
 tablib/formats/_tsv.py | 13 ++++++-------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tablib/formats/_csv.py b/tablib/formats/_csv.py
index 43da4ab..572d196 100644
--- a/tablib/formats/_csv.py
+++ b/tablib/formats/_csv.py
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@
 """ Tablib - CSV Support.
 """
 
-
-import os
-
-import tablib
 from tablib.compat import is_py3, csv, StringIO
 
 
@@ -14,7 +10,7 @@ title = 'csv'
 extentions = ('csv',)
 
 
-DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'utf-8'
+DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'utf-8-sig'
 
 
 
@@ -53,7 +49,7 @@ def import_set(dset, in_stream, headers=True):
 def detect(stream):
     """Returns True if given stream is valid CSV."""
     try:
-        rows = dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(stream)
+        csv.Sniffer().sniff(stream)
         return True
     except csv.Error:
         return False
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tablib/formats/_tsv.py b/tablib/formats/_tsv.py
index 54838b1..855dff4 100644
--- a/tablib/formats/_tsv.py
+++ b/tablib/formats/_tsv.py
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 """ Tablib - TSV (Tab Separated Values) Support.
 """
 
-import os
-
-import tablib
 from tablib.compat import is_py3, csv, StringIO
 
 
@@ -13,16 +10,17 @@ from tablib.compat import is_py3, csv, StringIO
 title = 'tsv'
 extentions = ('tsv',)
 
-DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'utf-8'
+DEFAULT_ENCODING = 'utf-8-sig'
 
 def export_set(dataset):
     """Returns a TSV representation of Dataset."""
+
     stream = StringIO()
 
     if is_py3:
-        _tsv = csv.writer(stream, delimiter="\t")
+        _tsv = csv.writer(stream, delimiter='\t')
     else:
-        _tsv = csv.writer(stream, encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING, delimiter="\t")
+        _tsv = csv.writer(stream, encoding=DEFAULT_ENCODING, delimiter='\t')
 
     for row in dataset._package(dicts=False):
         _tsv.writerow(row)
@@ -32,6 +30,7 @@ def export_set(dataset):
 
 def import_set(dset, in_stream, headers=True):
     """Returns dataset from TSV stream."""
+
     dset.wipe()
 
     if is_py3:
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ def import_set(dset, in_stream, headers=True):
 def detect(stream):
     """Returns True if given stream is valid TSV."""
     try:
-        rows = dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(stream, delimiters='\t')
+        csv.Sniffer().sniff(stream, delimiters='\t')
         return True
     except csv.Error:
         return False