Ramchandra Apte added the comment: I have posted on python-ideas.
On 9 March 2013 03:14, Terry J. Reedy <rep...@bugs.python.org> wrote: > > Terry J. Reedy added the comment: > > You did not explain why it is *impossible* for you to use any of the other > solutions. In any case, I looked at the C code. It defines delimiter (as > well as quotechar and escapechar) as a single unicode char. This is > different from Python which does not have a char type but uses strings > (arrays) of length one as a substitute. Redefining delimiter as an array of > unicode chars, as you propose, would complicate the code. It will take a > much stronger case than one person's 'It would be nice' to motivate someone > with the needed C skills to do the revision. It would as least slightly > slow down all single char uses. It would be easier and more useful, in some > ways, to write a Python csv version. > > You might look elsewhere for an enhanced csv reader that handles > multi-char delimiters. Searching just pypi for 'csv' returns perhaps 50 > hits. If you really want to pursue this for the stdlib, follow my > suggestion of posting to python-ideas and reference this issue. > > ---------- > nosy: +skip.montanaro > resolution: -> rejected > stage: test needed -> committed/rejected > status: open -> closed > > _______________________________________ > Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> > <http://bugs.python.org/issue15158> > _______________________________________ > ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15158> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
