STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@haypocalc.com> added the comment:
> say one of the fields has an embedded \r. For instance "blahblah\r" is the
> value of the first column. Now open this file in text mode. What happens to
> this '\r' even before csv.reader sees it?
I used rarely the CSV format, but it sounds strange to have a newline
character in a column. Newlines characters (\r and \n) are reserved to mark
the end of the line. Can you produce such file to test? :-)
I guess that the csv modules does something like readline().split(";").
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