On Jul 2, 6:04 am, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> The csv module imports from _csv, which suggests to me that there's code > written in C which thinks that the "\x00" is a NUL terminator, so it's a > bug, although it's very unusual to want to write characters like "\x00" > to a CSV file, and I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first time > it's been noticed! :-) Don't be surprised, read the documentation (http://docs.python.org/ library/csv.html#module-csv): """Note This version of the csv module doesn’t support Unicode input. Also, there are currently some issues regarding ASCII NUL characters. Accordingly, all input should be UTF-8 or printable ASCII to be safe; see the examples in section Examples. These restrictions will be removed in the future.""" The NUL/printable part of the note has been there since the module was introduced in Python 2.3.0. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
