New submission from Roy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
If you pass csv.reader() a filename as its first argument:
csv.reader('filename')
instead of a file object like you're supposed to, you don't get an error.
You instead get a reader object which returns the characters which make up
the filename.
Technically, this is not a bug, since the documentation says, "csvfile can
be any object which supports the iterator protocol and returns a string
each time its next method is called", and a string meets that definition.
Still, this is unexpected behavior, and is almost certainly not what the
user intended. It would be useful if a way could be devised to catch this
kind of mistake.
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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 65871
nosy: roysmith
severity: normal
status: open
title: csv.reader accepts string instead of file object (duck typing gone bad)
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.5
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<http://bugs.python.org/issue2701>
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