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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2009-03-25 00:52:18 (GMT)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2009-03-25 00:52:18 (GMT)
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clarify the type of data returned
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@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ The :mod:`csv` module defines the following functions:
dialect. For full details about the dialect and formatting parameters, see
section :ref:`csv-fmt-params`.
- All data read are returned as strings. No automatic data type conversion is
- performed.
+ Each row read from the csv file is returned as a list of strings. No
+ automatic data type conversion is performed.
The parser is quite strict with respect to multi-line quoted fields. Previously,
if a line ended within a quoted field without a terminating newline character, a