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Author	skip.montanaro
Recipients	georg.brandl, jaywalker, jdwhitley, pitrou, sjmachin, skip.montanaro, vstinner
Date	2009-03-09.15:22:14
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Message-id	<18869.13347.56562.706301@montanaro.dyndns.org>
In-reply-to	<18869.11988.296803.404068@montanaro.dyndns.org>

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me> What should be the default? Scratch that. If the iterator passed to csv.reader is in a mode which will cause it to emit bytes instead of unicode objects the caller must give an encoding. The csv.reader code will then perform the necessary bytes-to-unicode conversion. If bytes are returned by the iterator but no encoding was given it should raise an exception (something standard? something new?). Skip

me> What should be the default?

Scratch that.  If the iterator passed to csv.reader is in a mode which will
cause it to emit bytes instead of unicode objects the caller must give an
encoding.  The csv.reader code will then perform the necessary
bytes-to-unicode conversion.  If bytes are returned by the iterator but no
encoding was given it should raise an exception (something standard?
something new?).

Skip

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Date	User	Action	Args
2009-03-09 15:22:16	skip.montanaro	set	recipients: + skip.montanaro, georg.brandl, sjmachin, pitrou, vstinner, jaywalker, jdwhitley
2009-03-09 15:22:14	skip.montanaro	link	issue4847 messages
2009-03-09 15:22:14	skip.montanaro	create