Re: [Python-Dev] [Csv] skipfinalspace

2008-10-20 Thread John Machin
Tom Brown wrote: (Continuing thread started at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/csv/2008-October/000688.html) On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 16:46, Andrew McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >I downloaded the 2.6 source tar ball, but is it too late for new featur

Re: [Python-Dev] [Csv] These csv test cases seem incorrect to me...

2007-03-11 Thread John Machin
On 12/03/2007 1:41 PM, Andrew McNamara wrote: > > The point was to produce the same results as Excel. Sure, Excel probably > doesn't generate crap like this itself, but 3rd parties do, and people > complain if we don't parse it just like Excel (sigh). Let's put a little flesh on those a's and b's

Re: [Python-Dev] [Csv] These csv test cases seem incorrect to me...

2007-03-11 Thread John Machin
On 12/03/2007 1:01 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I decided it would be worthwhile to have a csv module written in Python (no > C underpinnings) for a number of reasons: > > * It will probably be easier to add Unicode support to a Python version > > * More people will be able to read/grok