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

[Skip Montanaro]

    Andrew> There's a bunch of jobs we (CSV module maintainers) have been
    Andrew> putting off - attached is a list (in no particular order):

    ...

In addition, it occurred to me this evening that there's functionality in
the csv module I don't think anybody uses.  For example, you can register
CSV dialects by name, then pass in the string name instead of the dialect
class.  I'd be in favor of scrapping list_dialects, register_dialect and
unregister_dialect altogether.  While they are probably trivial little
functions I don't think they add much if anything to the implementation and
just complicate the _csv extension module slightly.  I'm also not aware that
anyone really uses the Sniffer class, though it does provide some useful
functionality should you need to analyze random CSV files.

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