Graham Wideman added the comment:
David:
Yes, as it turns out you are absolutely right, in a manner of speaking. I have
retested this exhaustively today, and here's the root cause.
It turns out that in testing, I must have activate a particular simplified test
script by invoking only scriptna
R. David Murray added the comment:
You must have a different 'open' in your namespace when you execute that.
Dropping a keyword argument like that is something we would never do without a
deprecation period.
Your example works fine for me.
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New submission from Graham Wideman:
The docs appear to be incorrect for CSV at:
http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/csv.html.
Per issue http://bugs.python.org/issue7198 , there's a long history of
contention between os.open and csv.writer, in which, on Windows, the default
result is an unwante