[Csv] Out of town, BDFL pronouncement, incorporation, Unicode

[Skip Montanaro]

Folks,

I'll be at work Friday, but will be leaving Saturday for warm, sunny Mexico
for a week of r&r away from Chicago's chilly climate.  The latest version of
the code and PEP are "out there", hopefully getting poked and prodded a bit.

Assuming nothing earth-shattering develops by mid-week, would one of you
like to propose on python-dev that Guido pronounce on the PEP and give a
thumbs-up or -down on the module?  I can take care of merging it into the
Python distribution (stitch it into setup.py, the test directory and the
libref manual) when I return.

Any thoughts from Dave and Andrew about Unicode?  Marc André Lemburg (or was
it Martin von Löwis?) suggested just encoding Unicode as utf-8.  Someone
else (Fredrik Lundh I believe) suggested a double-compilation scheme such as
Modules/_sre.c uses.  One pass gets you 8-bit characters, the other wide
characters.  Presumably, the correct state machine to execute would be
chosen based upon the input data types.

Skip