Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> 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'])) >[] > >I hoped or assumed that the 2nd invocation should have the same >result as the first.
Really? That's not at all what I would have expected. The first line contains one field. The second line contains 0 fields. It's consistent, and syntactically valid. >I admit a blank, one-field csv record just isn't very >insteresting, but isn't this a special case that ought to be >documented? But that's what you have in the first line, and the reader has returned to you a list containing one (empty) string. I just don't see your interpretation. The results are exactly what I would have expected. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
