https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/5210e307ae799a700633711f50768c5f08ca3d99 commit: 5210e307ae799a700633711f50768c5f08ca3d99 branch: 3.14 author: Miss Islington (bot) <[email protected]> committer: hugovk <[email protected]> date: 2025-09-11T15:18:25Z summary:
[3.14] gh-138005: Document that CSV `skipinitialspace=True` and `delimiter=' '` require quotation for empty fields (GH-138006) (#138798) Co-authored-by: Maurycy Pawłowski-Wieroński <[email protected]> files: M Doc/library/csv.rst diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst index d39c4ca4a5838b..4242fc51ab395c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/csv.rst +++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst @@ -467,7 +467,8 @@ Dialects support the following attributes: .. attribute:: Dialect.skipinitialspace When :const:`True`, spaces immediately following the *delimiter* are ignored. - The default is :const:`False`. + The default is :const:`False`. When combining ``delimiter=' '`` with + ``skipinitialspace=True``, unquoted empty fields are not allowed. .. attribute:: Dialect.strict @@ -636,7 +637,7 @@ done:: .. rubric:: Footnotes .. [1] If ``newline=''`` is not specified, newlines embedded inside quoted fields - will not be interpreted correctly, and on platforms that use ``\r\n`` linendings + will not be interpreted correctly, and on platforms that use ``\r\n`` line endings on write an extra ``\r`` will be added. It should always be safe to specify ``newline=''``, since the csv module does its own (:term:`universal <universal newlines>`) newline handling. _______________________________________________ Python-checkins mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3//lists/python-checkins.python.org Member address: [email protected]
