Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Keith, while I sympathize with the request, I am going to agree with the others and close this. As I see it, csv exists to solve a particular problem. We want a printable file of records and text fields with visible field and record separators, but we may want to use those separators within fields. So we add a quote character as an auxiliary delimiter and ignore separators within quotes. Files with mismatched quotes are broken.
You are willing to append a quote, even though that may be the wrong thing to do. Alternatives include: skip the line, perhaps after logging it; delete the last quote to make the count even; provide a more sophisticated auto-editing function; or display a GUI entry box initialized to the bad line and request the user to edit until quotes are matched. I don't think we should pick any of these. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30034> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
