New submission from Moshe Sambol <moshe.sam...@gmail.com>:
The csv.DictReader constructor takes two optional parameters, restkey and restval. restkey is documented well, but restval is not: "If a row has more fields than fieldnames, the remaining data is put in a list and stored with the fieldname specified by restkey (which defaults to None). If a non-blank row has fewer fields than fieldnames, the missing values are filled-in with None." Since restval is not mentioned here, the reader may assume that the next sentence applies to it: "All other optional or keyword arguments are passed to the underlying reader instance." But this is not the case for restval. I suggest that the text be amended to "If a non-blank row has fewer fields than fieldnames, the missing values are filled-in with the value of restval (which defaults to None)." ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 364598 nosy: Moshe Sambol, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: CSV DictReader parameter documentation versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40013> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
