[Python-Dev] Re: [Csv] Minor change to behaviour of csv module (original) (raw)

Magnus Lie Hetland magnus at hetland.org
Fri Jan 7 14:38:17 CET 2005

Andrew McNamara <andrewm at object-craft.com.au>:

[snip] Currently, with a non-default escapechar='\', input like:

_field one,field _ two,field three Returns: ["field one", "field \\ntwo", "field three"] In the 2.5 series, I propose changing this to return: ["field one", "field \ntwo", "field three"]

IMO this is the only reasonable behaviour. I don't understand why the escape character should be left in; this is one of the reason why UNIX-style colon-separated values don't work with the current module.

If one wanted the first version, one would (I presume) write

field one,field \
two,field three

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