Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> added the comment: I think it's good if it allowed passing in a binary file and an encoding, but I think it would be crazy if it wouldn't also take a text file. After all the primary purpose of a CSV file, edge cases notwithstanding, is to look like text to the end user in a text editor (as opposed to Excel spreadsheets, which look like binary gobbledygook unless opened with Excel).
Are there any use cases for returning bytes strings instead of text strings? If so that should probably be another flag. ---------- nosy: +gvanrossum _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4847> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
