R David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 at 17:55, Skip Montanaro wrote: > This thread is getting a bit long. Can someone summarize how the expected > usage of the csv module is supposed to change? If I read things correctly, > instead of requiring (in the general case) that csv files be opened in > binary mode, the requirement will be that they be opened with newline=''. > This will thwart any attempts by the io module at newline translation, but > since the file is still opened in text mode its contents will implicitly be > Unicode (or Unicode translated to bytes with a specific encoding). That > encoding will also be specified in the call to open().
I believe that is an accurate summary. > Is this about correct? Do any test cases need to be updated or added? I > notice that something called BytesIO is imported from io but not used. Were > some test cases removed which used to involve that class or is that a 2to3 > artifact? I will look in to this, and add an encoding example to the docs as you suggest in another email. --David ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray-old _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4847> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
