[Python-ideas] csv.DictReader could handle headers more intelligently.

[Mark Hackett]

On Monday 28 Jan 2013, Ethan Furman wrote:
> On 01/28/2013 04:21 AM, Mark Hackett wrote:
> > On Friday 25 Jan 2013, Ethan Furman wrote:
> >> We're going to have to agree to disagree on this point -- I think there
> >> is a huge difference between reassigning a variable which is completely
> >> under your control from losing entire columns of data from a file which
> >> you may have never seen before.
> >
> > But if you've never seen it before, how do you know that you're going to
> > get a LIST in one column?
> 
> I don't, which is why an exception should be raised.
> 
> ~Ethan~

And there's an argument for that that I've agreed to before.

There's a counter that this will cause programs that used to work to fail.

Whether the pro is higher than the con or the other way round is what I 
question.

You, however, seem to believe this is a forgone conclusion.

And that's where I disagree.