CSV: minimalquoting and skipinitialspace,

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed May 19 09:15:08 EDT 2004


    Martin> Proposal:

    Martin> QUOTE_MINIMAL 
    Martin> Instructs writer objects to only quote those fields which
    Martin> contain the current delimiter or begin with the current
    Martin> quotechar or start with a [blank | white space character] if the
    Martin> dialect specifies skipinitialspace=False.

    Martin> What do you think?

It's an idea with merit.  Can you post a feature request to the Python
project on SF?  Even better would be a patch that implements the idea. ;-)

Skip




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