>> Yes, although it would be nice to also retain the 8-bit versions as well. > >You can do so by using latin-1 as default encoding. Works great !
Yep, although that means we wear the cost of decoding and encoding for all 8 bit input. What does the _sre.c code do? >Depends on your needs: CSV files tend to be small enough >to do the decoding in one call in memory. We are routinely dealing with multi-gigabyte csv files - which is why the original 2001 vintage csv module was written as a C state machine. -- Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft http://www.object-craft.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com