escapechar one-character string used by the writer to escape the delimiter if quoting is set to quote_none and the quotechar if doublequote is false quotechar one-character string used to quote fields containing special characterssuch as the delimiter or quotecharor which contain new-line characters it defaults to '"quoting controls when quotes should be generated by the writer and recognised by the reader it can take on any of the quote_constants (see section module contentsand defaults to quote_minimal skipinitialspace when truewhitespace immediately following the delimiter is ignored the default is false pep_ _off when true in python version pep- is turned on the default is false dest_file_nameanother file name dest_file_typethis is needed if you want to save to memory dest_session the target database session dest_tables the list of target destination tables dest_models the list of target destination django models dest_mapdicts list of mapping dictionaries dest_initializers table initialization functions dest_mapdicts to nominate model or table fields optional dest_batch_size batch creation size optional where the dictionary should have text as keys and two dimensional array as values saving to source file memory sql django model parameters dest_file_namedest_sheet_namekeywords with prefix 'destdest_file_typedest_contentdest_sheet_namekeywords with prefix 'destdest_sessiondest_tablesdest_table_init_funcdest_mapdict dest_modelsdest_initializersdest_mapdictdest_batch_size when you use this function to work on physical filesthis function will leave its file handle open when you finish the operation on its datayou need to call pyexcel free_resources(to close file hande(sfor csvcsvz file formatsfile handles will be left open for xlsods file formatsthe file is read all into memory and is close afterwards for xlsxfile handles will be left open in python by pyexcel-xlsx(openpyxlin other wordspyexcel-xlspyexcel-odspyexcel-ods won' leak file handles these flags can be passed on all signature functionsauto_detect_int automatically convert float values to integers if the float number has no decimal values( by defaultit does the detection setting it to false will turn on this behavior it has no effect on pyexcel-xlsx because it does that by default auto_detect_float automatically convert text to float values if possible this applies only pyexcel-io where csvtsvcsvz and tsvz formats are supported by defaultit does the detection setting it to false will turn on this behavior support the project