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

[Tres Seaver]

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Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>>> So what would the specification then read like?
>> The 'excel' dialect specified in PEP 305:
>>
>>   http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0305/#id19
> 
> That works fine for me.
> 
> I notice that the PEP doesn't actually match the API, in particular
> wrt. to passing a fieldnames keyword argument.
> 
> Do we need to specify whether there will be a heading line, and if
> so, should we require it?

A heading line makes the file self-documenting, and even a bit
future-proof (assuming resonable defaults exist for any columns added
later).  Given that we don't have any legacy code which is generating
one without the headings, I would require it.


Tres.
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