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Andrew McNamara andrewm at object-craft.com.au
Fri Jan 31 01:16:00 CET 2003


>>I can live with that.  I would propose then that escape_char default to
>>something reasonable, not None.
>
>That's a little hairy, because the resulting file can't be parsed
>correctly by Excel. But it should be safe if the escape_char is only
>emitted if quote is set to none.

Hmmm - I just realised this isn't safe where the excel dialect is
concerned - excel does no special processing of backslash, so our parser
shouldn't either.

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