[issue4847] csv fails when file is opened in binary mode

[jaywalker]

jaywalker <jaywalkie at yahoo.com> added the comment:

make it '\r\n', if you want. Such files can be easily generated on windows text editors, or even linux ones nowadays. Upon reading, if the file is opened in text mode, this will probably be converted to \n even on linux by python (I may be wrong). Thus, \r gets lost.

Not a biggie, but you never know ;0)

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From: STINNER Victor <report at bugs.python.org>
To: jaywalkie at yahoo.com
Sent: Monday, January 5, 2009 12:23:45 PM
Subject: [issue4847] csv fails when file is opened in binary mode

STINNER Victor <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> added the comment:

> say one of the fields has an embedded \r. For instance "blahblah\r" is the
> value of the first column. Now open this file in text mode. What happens to
> this '\r' even before csv.reader sees it?

I used rarely the CSV format, but it sounds strange to have a newline 
character in a column. Newlines characters (\r and \n) are reserved to mark 
the end of the line. Can you produce such file to test? :-)

I guess that the csv modules does something like readline().split(";").

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