[Csv] Re: First Cut at CSV PEP

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Fri Jan 31 01:10:13 CET 2003


    Cliff> Hm.  Something has occurred to me.  How about treating None as a
    Cliff> true null value.  That is, we never quote it. So, even if
    Cliff> alwaysquote == true

    Cliff> [1,2,3,'',None] 

    Cliff> would get exported as 

    Cliff> '1','2','3','',

Too fragile, methinks.  Also, I I've said before, in my application domain
at least, trying to write None to a CSV file is a bug.

Skip


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