From b78c1509f67fb76d17ac97193a2851d8d9e17f62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kelly Brazil <kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2020 15:06:25 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] try/except dialect detection

---
 jc/parsers/csv.py | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/jc/parsers/csv.py b/jc/parsers/csv.py
index 793ac611..1c753954 100644
--- a/jc/parsers/csv.py
+++ b/jc/parsers/csv.py
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 Usage:
 
     specify --csv as the first argument if the piped input is coming from a csv file.
-    the csv parser will attempt to automatically detect the delimter character.
+    the csv parser will attempt to automatically detect the delimiter character.
+    if the delimiter cannot be detected it will default to comma.
     the first row of the file must be a header row.
 
 Compatibility:
@@ -123,7 +124,12 @@ def parse(data, raw=False, quiet=False):
     cleandata = list(filter(None, cleandata))
 
     if cleandata:
-        dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(data[:1024])
+        dialect = None
+        try:
+            dialect = csv.Sniffer().sniff(data[:1024])
+        except Exception:
+            pass
+
         reader = csv.DictReader(cleandata, dialect=dialect)
 
         for row in reader: