Fredrik Lundh wrote: > John Machin wrote: > > > Given Peter Otten's post, looks like > > (1) there's a bug in the "fmtparam" mechanism -- it's ignoring the > > escapechar in my first twiddle, which should give the same result as > > Peter's. > > (2) > > | >>> csv.excel.doublequote > > True > > According to my reading of the docs: > > """ > > doublequote > > Controls how instances of quotechar appearing inside a field should be > > themselves be quoted. When True, the character is doubled. When False, > > the escapechar is used as a prefix to the quotechar. It defaults to > > True. > > """ > > Peter's example should not have worked. > > the documentation also mentions a "quoting" parameter that "controls > when quotes should be generated by the writer and recognised by the > reader.". not sure how that changes things.
Hi Fredrik, I read that carefully -- "quoting" appears to have no effect in this situation. > > anyway, it's either unclear documentation or a bug in the code. better > submit a bug report so someone can fix one of them. Tomorrow :-) Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
