tobiah wrote: >> you may be misreading the docs; the Dialect has no values at all, and >> must be subclassed (and the subclass must provide settings). > > The docs clearly state what the defaults are, but they are not > in the code. It seems so clumsy to have to specify every one > of these, just to change the delimiter from comma to tab. > > http://docs.python.org/lib/csv-fmt-params.html :
The "it defaults to" clauses should probably be seen in the context of the two "the programmer can" sentences in the first paragraph on that page; the default is what's used if you don't do that. I agree that the first paragraph could need some work. Any volunteers? </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list