[Catalog-sig] [Distutils] distribute D.C. sprint tasks

[Tres Seaver]

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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>> So would the stats file then be of the form
>>> package,filename,useragent,count
>>> ? (commas in the useragent replaced with semicolons)
>> Why not just use the csv module for that, and let it handle the escaping?
> 
> I don't want to specify "the format is the one that the csv module
> produces". Instead, I could accept an explicit specification of what
> the CSV module produces, indicating that mirrors are encouraged to use
> the CSV module to actually produce the data. However, if somebody
> prefers to implement the mirror in Perl, then this should still be
> possible.
> 
> So what would the specification then read like?

The 'excel' dialect specified in PEP 305:

  http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0305/#id19


Tres.
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