On 2012-04-25, Kiuhnm <kiuhnm03.4t.yahoo.it> wrote: > On 4/25/2012 20:05, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> Is there an explanation or previous dicussion somewhere for the >> following behavior? I haven't yet trolled the csv mailing list >> archive, though that would probably be a good place to check. >> >> Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Feb 20 2011, 21:29:02) [MSC v.1500 32 bit >> (Intel)] on win 32 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>> import csv >>>>> next(csv.reader(['""\r\n'])) >> [''] >>>>> next(csv.reader(['\r\n'])) >> [] > > This should be documented (I trust you when you say it isn't), > but it makes a lot of sense: > > >>> next(csv.reader([''])) > [] > >>> next(csv.reader(['""'])) > [''] > >>> next(csv.reader([','])) > ['', ''] > >>> next(csv.reader([',,'])) > ['', '', '']
It is definitely consistent and usable, once the quoting truck is learned. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
