[Csv] Minor change to behaviour of csv module
Magnus Lie Hetland
magnus at hetland.org
Fri Jan 7 14:38:17 CET 2005
Andrew McNamara <andrewm at object-craft.com.au>:
>
[snip]
> Currently, with a non-default escapechar='\\', input like:
>
> field one,field \
> two,field three
>
> Returns:
>
> ["field one", "field \\\ntwo", "field three"]
>
> In the 2.5 series, I propose changing this to return:
>
> ["field one", "field \ntwo", "field three"]
IMO this is the *only* reasonable behaviour. I don't understand why
the escape character should be left in; this is one of the reason why
UNIX-style colon-separated values don't work with the current module.
If one wanted the first version, one would (I presume) write
field one,field \\\
two,field three
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