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| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/csv.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/csv.py b/Lib/csv.py index f2389fd304..78b675949e 100644 --- a/Lib/csv.py +++ b/Lib/csv.py @@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ __all__ = [ "QUOTE_MINIMAL", "QUOTE_ALL", "QUOTE_NONNUMERIC", "QUOTE_NONE", "unregister_dialect", "__version__", "DictReader", "DictWriter" ] class Dialect: + """Describe an Excel dialect. + + This must be subclassed (see csv.excel). Valid attributes are: + delimiter, quotechar, escapechar, doublequote, skipinitialspace, + lineterminator, quoting. + + """ _name = "" _valid = False # placeholders @@ -78,6 +85,7 @@ class Dialect: return errors class excel(Dialect): + """Describe the usual properties of Excel-generated CSV files.""" delimiter = ',' quotechar = '"' doublequote = True @@ -87,6 +95,7 @@ class excel(Dialect): register_dialect("excel", excel) class excel_tab(excel): + """Describe the usual properties of Excel-generated TAB-delimited files.""" delimiter = '\t' register_dialect("excel-tab", excel_tab) |