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<br><div><div>On Jan 29, 2013, at 4:35 AM, Mark Hackett <<a href="mailto:mark.hackett@metoffice.gov.uk">mark.hackett@metoffice.gov.uk</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On Tuesday 29 Jan 2013, Steven D'Aprano wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">If it dropped the columns and shouldn't have, then the results will be<br>seen to be wrong anyway, so there's not a huge amount of need for this.<br></blockquote><br>You cannot assume that the caller knows that there are duplicated column<br> names<br><br></blockquote><br>You cannot assume they wanted them as a list.<br><br>You cannot assume that duplicate replacement is what they want.<br><br>If someone is using a csv file with header names they have never read, how are <br>they going to use the data? They won't even know the name to access the value <br>in the dictionary! So I discard the claim that the caller may not know the <br>column names are duplicated. They have to know what the headers are to use <br>DictReader.<br>_______________________________________________<br>Python-ideas mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Python-ideas@python.org">Python-ideas@python.org</a><br>http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>