https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3cc891f7ae71ab1fed3e00ec83baadc42db1eb1e
commit: 3cc891f7ae71ab1fed3e00ec83baadc42db1eb1e
branch: main
author: Serhiy Storchaka <[email protected]>
committer: serhiy-storchaka <[email protected]>
date: 2026-08-13T13:02:52+03:00
summary:

gh-105116: Document that an escaped csv quotechar does not cause quoting 
(GH-155073)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>

files:
M Doc/library/csv.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst
index e78371f114e0a1..16ff9746f8f05a 100644
--- a/Doc/library/csv.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst
@@ -386,6 +386,8 @@ The :mod:`!csv` module defines the following constants:
    Instructs :class:`writer` objects to only quote those fields which contain
    special characters such as *delimiter*, *quotechar*, ``'\r'``, ``'\n'``
    or any of the characters in *lineterminator*.
+   If *doublequote* is :const:`False` and *escapechar* is set,
+   the *quotechar* is escaped instead of causing the field to be quoted.
 
 
 .. data:: QUOTE_NONNUMERIC

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