[Python-Dev] csv module TODO list (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal at egenix.com
Wed Jan 5 10:10:30 CET 2005

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Andrew McNamara wrote:

There's a bunch of jobs we (CSV module maintainers) have been putting off - attached is a list (in no particular order): * unicode support (this will probably uglify the code considerably). Can you please elaborate on that? What needs to be done, and how is that going to be done? It might be possible to avoid considerable uglification.

Indeed. The trick is to convert to Unicode early and to use Unicode literals instead of string literals in the code.

Note that the only real-life Unicode format in use is UTF-16 (with BOM mark) written by Excel. Note that there's no standard for specifying the encoding in CSV files, so this is also the only feasable format.

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