[Csv] Re: [Python-Dev] csv module TODO list

[Andrew McNamara]

>> Yes, although it would be nice to also retain the 8-bit versions as well.
>
>You can do so by using latin-1 as default encoding. Works great !

Yep, although that means we wear the cost of decoding and encoding for
all 8 bit input.

What does the _sre.c code do?

>Depends on your needs: CSV files tend to be small enough
>to do the decoding in one call in memory.

We are routinely dealing with multi-gigabyte csv files - which is why the
original 2001 vintage csv module was written as a C state machine. 

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