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329329the :class: `Dialect ` class as the dialect parameter. In addition to, or instead
330330of, the *dialect * parameter, the programmer can also specify individual
331331formatting parameters, which have the same names as the attributes defined below
332- for the :class: `Dialect ` class.
332+ for the :class: `Dialect ` class. Note that the default values given
333+ for the attributes below are for the :class: `excel ` dialect, not the :class: `Dialect `
334+ class itself, because :class: `excel ` is the default dialect used by the :mod: `csv `
335+ module. When subclassing the :class: `Dialect ` class, all of the following attributes
336+ should be specified by your subclass because :class: `Dialect ` defaults them all to
337+ :const: `None `.
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334339Dialects support the following attributes:
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