[issue28642] csv reader losing rows with big files and tab delimiter

Marc Garcia added the comment: I agree that for my case, I was using the wrong quoting parameter, and if I specify that my file has no quotes, it works as expected. But I still think that in a different case, when a file do have quotes, but they are not paired, it'd be better to raise an excep

[issue28642] csv reader losing rows with big files and tab delimiter

SilentGhost added the comment: No, the module works exactly as advertised. The default value of quoting parameter might not be suitable for this file, but it suits majority of files out there. The fields in csv can contain line feed, so the line in your example does not have a "missing" quote,

[issue28642] csv reader losing rows with big files and tab delimiter

Marc Garcia added the comment: I could research a bit more on the problem. This is a minimal code that reproduces what happened: from io import StringIO import csv csv_file = StringIO('''1\t"A 2\tB''') reader = csv.reader(csv_file, delimiter='\t') for i, row in enumera

[issue28642] csv reader losing rows with big files and tab delimiter

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[issue28642] csv reader losing rows with big files and tab delimiter

Marc Garcia added the comment: Sorry, my fault. It looks like having quotes in the file was the problem. As mentioned, adding the quoting parameter fixes the problem. I'd assume that if quotes are not paired, csv should raise an exception. And I don't think that all the different chunks of the