[New-bugs-announce] [issue34713] csvwriter.writerow()'s return type is undocumented

[Nicholas Chammas]

New submission from Nicholas Chammas <nicholas.chammas at gmail.com>:

It _looks_ like csvwriter.writerow() returns the number of bytes (or is it characters?) written. However, there is no documentation of this:

https://docs.python.org/3.7/library/csv.html#csv.csvwriter.writerow

Is this behavior part of the method's "contract"? And if so, shouldn't we document it?

The same goes for csvwriter.writerows().

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation, Library (Lib)
messages: 325557
nosy: docs at python, nchammas
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: csvwriter.writerow()'s return type is undocumented
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8

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