[New-bugs-announce] [issue36246] csv.writer lineterminator affects csv escaping

[flow2k]

New submission from flow2k <sunflow2k at gmail.com>:

output = io.StringIO()
csvData = [1, 2, 'a', 'He said "what do you mean?"', "Whoa!\rNewlines!"]
writer = csv.writer(output,lineterminator='\n')
writer.writerow(csvData)
print(repr(output.getvalue())) #does not escape \r as expected

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messages: 337537
nosy: flow2k
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: csv.writer lineterminator affects csv escaping
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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