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Document csv Dialect class defaults
mehrdadmoradii Sep 15, 2022
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Merge branch 'main' into fixing-doc-csv-default-dialect
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7 changes: 6 additions & 1 deletion Doc/library/csv.rst
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Expand Up @@ -234,7 +234,12 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following classes:
information for how to handle doublequotes, whitespace, delimiters, etc.
Due to the lack of a strict CSV specification, different applications
produce subtly different CSV data. :class:`Dialect` instances define how
:class:`reader` and :class:`writer` instances behave.
:class:`reader` and :class:`writer` instances behave. Note that the default
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values given for the attributes below are for the :class:`excel` dialect, not
the :class:`Dialect` class itself, because :class:`excel` is the default
dialect used by the :mod:`csv` module. When subclassing the :class:`Dialect`
class, all of the following attributes should be specified by your subclass
because :class:`Dialect` defaults them all to :const:`None`.

All available :class:`Dialect` names are returned by :func:`list_dialects`,
and they can be registered with specific :class:`reader` and :class:`writer`
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