[issue36497] Undocumented behavior in csv.Sniffer (preferred delimiters)

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[issue36497] Undocumented behavior in csv.Sniffer (preferred delimiters)

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[issue36497] Undocumented behavior in csv.Sniffer (preferred delimiters)

New submission from Thomas Buhrmann : When the Sniffer detects more than one possible delimiter, as e.g. in the following file "a;b;c;d,e;f;g;h" the result will always be the ',' delimiter, independent of how "dominant" another delimiter is. This is because the codepath analyzing dominance w