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authorSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2005-01-05 06:54:58 (GMT)
committerSkip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com>2005-01-05 06:54:58 (GMT)
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add a couple missing docstrings
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-rw-r--r--Lib/csv.py9
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diff --git a/Lib/csv.py b/Lib/csv.py
index f2389fd..78b6759 100644
--- a/Lib/csv.py
+++ b/Lib/csv.py
@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ __all__ = [ "QUOTE_MINIMAL", "QUOTE_ALL", "QUOTE_NONNUMERIC", "QUOTE_NONE",
"unregister_dialect", "__version__", "DictReader", "DictWriter" ]
class Dialect:
+ """Describe an Excel dialect.
+
+ This must be subclassed (see csv.excel). Valid attributes are:
+ delimiter, quotechar, escapechar, doublequote, skipinitialspace,
+ lineterminator, quoting.
+
+ """
_name = ""
_valid = False
# placeholders
@@ -78,6 +85,7 @@ class Dialect:
return errors
class excel(Dialect):
+ """Describe the usual properties of Excel-generated CSV files."""
delimiter = ','
quotechar = '"'
doublequote = True
@@ -87,6 +95,7 @@ class excel(Dialect):
register_dialect("excel", excel)
class excel_tab(excel):
+ """Describe the usual properties of Excel-generated TAB-delimited files."""
delimiter = '\t'
register_dialect("excel-tab", excel_tab)