Message 337046 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

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Author	martin.panter
Recipients	Shane Smith, martin.panter
Date	2019-03-03.21:08:32
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The documentation <https://docs.python.org/dev/library/csv.html#module-contents> says you should “open the files with newline=''.” IMO this is an unfortunate quirk of the CSV module. Everything else that I know of in the Python built-in library either works with binary files, which typically do no newline translation in Python 3, or is fine with newline translation enabled in text mode. See also Issue 10954 about making the behaviour stricter.

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The documentation <https://docs.python.org/dev/library/csv.html#module-contents> says you should “open the files with newline=''.” IMO this is an unfortunate quirk of the CSV module. Everything else that I know of in the Python built-in library either works with binary files, which typically do no newline translation in Python 3, or is fine with newline translation enabled in text mode. See also Issue 10954 about making the behaviour stricter.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-03-03 21:08:33	martin.panter	set	recipients: + martin.panter, Shane Smith
2019-03-03 21:08:33	martin.panter	set	messageid: 1551647313.22.0.223093136711.issue36172@roundup.psfhosted.org
2019-03-03 21:08:33	martin.panter	link	issue36172 messages
2019-03-03 21:08:32	martin.panter	create