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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2007-11-04 15:56:52 (GMT)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2007-11-04 15:56:52 (GMT)
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Note change to get_dialect semantics in 2.5. Will backport to 2.5.
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@@ -127,6 +127,11 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following functions:
Return the dialect associated with *name*. An :exc:`Error` is raised if *name*
is not a registered dialect name.
+ .. versionchanged:: 2.5
+
+ This function now returns an immutable :class:`Dialect`. Previously an
+ instance of the requested dialect was returned. Users could modify the
+ underlying class, changing the behavior of active readers and writers.
.. function:: list_dialects()