auto_parse boolean literals

[adaltas]

auto_parse boolean literals

[wdavidw]

there are problems. I'm french and I would expect 'vrai' to cast to true. Same goes with an empty string which could cast to false or just an empty string which seems much more appropriate.

@wdavidw ok, and because it doesn't work in french, auto_parse should continue to miserably fail on standard boolean values?

Common, re-open and accept that pull request for God sake.

Thank you,

[ldegen]

@fboutin-pmc: Please, tone it down a bit. Everything is cool. :-)

@wdavidw was right to reject my PR. The behavior would have been very specific to the particular way Javascript (and a handful of other programming languages) represent boolean literals. There are no "standard boolean values" as far as CSV is concerned. You would have to support all sorts of boolean representations for this module to still be functionally 'closed' -- if this makes any sense; I'm afraid I don't know the correct English expression.

Anyway, if I read the documentation correctly, you can just pass your own application-specific value parser function to auto_parse. I think this is quite an adequate solution.

[wdavidw]

@ldegen thanks you, you said it all.