Tino Lange wrote: >>> I'm trying to use the csv Parser included with Python. Field Delimiter >>> is "|", Line Delimiter is "#". Unfortunately it doesn't work as >>> expected. The parser seems to just ignore the 'lineterminator'? >> >> The csv reader accepts '\r' '\r\n' or '\n' as line endings, even mixed in >> the same file. This behaviour is hardcoded. Only the writer uses the >> lineterminator specified in the dialect. > > Boah ... Really? > > a) this is not in the documentation ... or did I oversee something?
It's only in the development version of the documentation, see http://docs.python.org/dev/lib/csv-fmt-params.html > b) this is really unacceptable, or? At least we here have many CSV's with > other lineterminators than '\n'. Do you need the elaborate (read: odd) escaping techniques of the original CSV for these? Or would [row.split(fieldsep) for row in data.split(linesep)] work just as well? > Is this going to be changed? Is someone working on it? Or are patches for > SF wanted? I would think so. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list