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[Feature Request] Direct exploration of CSV file. #159

Open abdullahdevrel opened 3 months ago

abdullahdevrel commented 3 months ago

AFAIK, the way to explore a CSV file in Datasette involves an intermediate step of first converting the CSV file to an SQLite database file. For example:

csvs-to-sqlite ipinfo_nordicvm.csv ipinfo_nordicvm.db
datasette ipinfo_nordicvm.db

Even though this step seems inconsequential, I wonder if directly reading the CSV file would be an option. It would: