[CSV] Number of lines in CSV files

[Skip Montanaro]

    Cliff> Okay, +1 on punting file size.  Unless anyone else cares to argue
    Cliff> it I suppose we'll leave it out.

I don't know how you could support it if a csv reader is an iterable.  You
wouldn't know until you encountered a row with more than max columns or read
the read which exceeded the max rows.  Similarly, just because I want my CSV
file to be formatted the same way Excel does things doesn't mean I am going
to load the file into Excel.

    >> I have a sneeking suspician that Excels CSV parsing code is resonably
    >> stable - they're probably not game to make changes now that it mostly
    >> works. We might find that dialect="excel" is good enough.

    Cliff> Probably.  This can be fixed via bug reports (and dialects added)
    Cliff> if that changes.

"excel" it is.  I believe that should be fine for Excel 97 and Excel 2000
(ISTR that Excel 2000 is just Excel 97 bundled in Office 2000).  Any
distinctions with older versions can be tagged, e.g., "excel95", "excel4",
though I suspect they may also be the same.

Skip

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