[issue31590] CSV module incorrectly treats escaped newlines as new records if unquoted

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Yes, the status quo won ;-). Sebastian, if you think a doc fix is still needed for current versions, please open a new issue with a specific suggestion and explanation for changing the 3.9 doc. -- resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status

[issue31590] CSV module incorrectly treats escaped newlines as new records if unquoted

Zackery Spytz added the comment: Python 2 is EOL, so I think this issue should be closed. -- nosy: +ZackerySpytz ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue31590] CSV module incorrectly treats escaped newlines as new records if unquoted

Sebastian Bank added the comment: https://bugs.python.org/issue15927#msg309811 gives sme code examples illustrating why I think this should be backported (and also the documentation should be changed for both Python 2 and 3). -- nosy: +xflr6 ___ Py

[issue31590] CSV module incorrectly treats escaped newlines as new records if unquoted

Vaibhav Mallya added the comment: Hello R. David & Terry! Appreciate your prompt responses. While experimenting with different test cases I realized that escaped slashes and newlines are intrinsically annoying to reason about as stringy-one-liners, so I threw together a small tarball test ca

[issue31590] CSV module incorrectly treats escaped newlines as new records if unquoted

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I explained on #15927 why I currently see it as an enhancement issue, and therefore not appropriate to be backported. In fact, based on the doc, I am puzzled why the line terminator was being escaped. -- ___ Pytho

[issue31590] CSV module incorrectly treats escaped newlines as new records if unquoted

Vaibhav Mallya (mallyvai) added the comment: If there's any way this can be documented that would be a big help, at least. There have been other folks who run into this, and the current behavior is implicit. On Sep 29, 2017 5:44 PM, "R. David Murray" wrote: R. David Murray added the comment:

[issue31590] CSV module incorrectly treats escaped newlines as new records if unquoted

R. David Murray added the comment: I'm pretty hesitant to make this kind of change in python2. I'm going to punt, and let someone else make the decision. Which means if no one does, the status quo will win. Sorry about that. -- ___ Python tracke

[issue31590] CSV module incorrectly treats escaped newlines as new records if unquoted

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: In closing #15927, R. David Murray said "Although this is clearly a bug fix, it also represents a behavior change that could cause a working program to fail. I have therefore only applied it to 3.4, but I'm open to arguments that it should be backported."

[issue31590] CSV module incorrectly treats escaped newlines as new records if unquoted

New submission from Vaibhav Mallya: I'm writing python `csv` based-parsers as part of a data processing pipeline that includes Redshift and other data stores upstream and down. It's easy and expected in all of these data stores (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_UNLOAD.html) tha