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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Andrew McNamara wrote:
>>>Can you please elaborate on that? What needs to be done, and how is
>>>that going to be done? It might be possible to avoid considerable
>>>uglification.
> 
> 
> I'm not altogether sure there. The parsing state machine is all written in
> C, and deals with signed chars - I expect we'll need two versions of that
> (or one version that's compiled twice using pre-processor macros). Quite
> a large job. Suggestions gratefully received.

I'm still trying to understand what *needs* to be done - I would move to
how this is done only later. What APIs should be extended/changed, and
in what way?

Regards,
Martin