[ python-Bugs-1572471 ] csv "dialect = 'excel-tab'" to use excel_tab

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Bugs item #1572471, was opened at 2006-10-06 17:06
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Dan Goldner (goldner)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: csv "dialect = 'excel-tab'" to use excel_tab

Initial Comment:
Python Library Reference v2.5 (19 September 2006),
section 9.1.1, entry for class excel_tab: 

Documentation should note that though the class is
excel_tab (with an underscore), the dialect name is
'excel-tab' (with a hyphen). 

Possible fix is to add a sentence: 

class excel_tab(  	)
    The excel_tab class defines the usual properties of
an Excel-generated TAB-delimited file. Specify in
reader, writer, etc. with "dialect = 'excel-tab'" (with
a hyphen, not an underscore). 

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