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| author | Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-10-07 18:15:34 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-10-07 18:15:34 (GMT) |
| commit | 676d8ef3806758bcd1d3fd84a746c8a9b64480d0 (patch) | |
| tree | c381acae7c50e3edb4ad845a9fcf09872dd93173 | |
| parent | 4a74e6ab3885e7906cc5e0b15addc7779bc76249 (diff) | |
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gh-65496: Correct wording on csv's skipinitialspace argument (#96170)
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/csv.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_csv.py | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Modules/_csv.c | 8 |
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/csv.rst b/Doc/library/csv.rst index 0cab95e..41f1150 100644 --- a/Doc/library/csv.rst +++ b/Doc/library/csv.rst @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ Dialects support the following attributes: .. attribute:: Dialect.skipinitialspace - When :const:`True`, whitespace immediately following the *delimiter* is ignored. + When :const:`True`, spaces immediately following the *delimiter* are ignored. The default is :const:`False`. diff --git a/Lib/test/test_csv.py b/Lib/test/test_csv.py index a2b0043..d64bff1 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_csv.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_csv.py @@ -362,6 +362,11 @@ class Test_Csv(unittest.TestCase): self._read_test(['1,@,3,@,5'], [['1', ',3,', '5']], quotechar='@') self._read_test(['1,\0,3,\0,5'], [['1', ',3,', '5']], quotechar='\0') + def test_read_skipinitialspace(self): + self._read_test(['no space, space, spaces,\ttab'], + [['no space', 'space', 'spaces', '\ttab']], + skipinitialspace=True) + def test_read_bigfield(self): # This exercises the buffer realloc functionality and field size # limits. diff --git a/Modules/_csv.c b/Modules/_csv.c index d34d0a1..25bf86f 100644 --- a/Modules/_csv.c +++ b/Modules/_csv.c @@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ parse_process_char(ReaderObj *self, _csvstate *module_state, Py_UCS4 c) self->state = ESCAPED_CHAR; } else if (c == ' ' && dialect->skipinitialspace) - /* ignore space at start of field */ + /* ignore spaces at start of field */ ; else if (c == dialect->delimiter) { /* save empty field */ @@ -1647,9 +1647,9 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(csv_module_doc, " quoting character. It defaults to '\"'.\n" " * delimiter - specifies a one-character string to use as the\n" " field separator. It defaults to ','.\n" -" * skipinitialspace - specifies how to interpret whitespace which\n" -" immediately follows a delimiter. It defaults to False, which\n" -" means that whitespace immediately following a delimiter is part\n" +" * skipinitialspace - specifies how to interpret spaces which\n" +" immediately follow a delimiter. It defaults to False, which\n" +" means that spaces immediately following a delimiter is part\n" " of the following field.\n" " * lineterminator - specifies the character sequence which should\n" " terminate rows.\n" |