[Python-Dev] PEP 376

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Jul 2 20:00:09 CEST 2009


Scott David Daniels wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>> Guido van Rossum <guido <at> python.org> writes:
>>> I noted an inconsistency: first you say that the RECORD file uses the
>>> excel dialect, but at the end of the same section you say it uses the
>>> default csv settings. Sounds like you need to delete one or the other.
>>
>> If I remember correctly, the default csv dialect is just the Excel 
>> dialect, so
>> this would be two different ways of saying the same things.
> 
> Right, but Guido's point is, decide which one is the is the definition
> and stick to  talking about it in that form.

Since I think it more likely that Excel will change than cvs default, I 
think the latter should be used.



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