csvstat hanging on file with 8518 fields

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, performance

Research direction

Start by reproducing the hang with csvstat on a CSV containing 8,518 fields, then trace the csvstat command's processing of wide rows. Done means the command completes instead of hanging on this input; the issue does not identify a source file or test to run.

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Description

csvstat feature

I have a file with 8000+ columns and csvstat is just hanging on it. More to come.

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