[Python-Dev] csv module TODO list

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Andrew McNamara wrote:
> 
>> There's a bunch of jobs we (CSV module maintainers) have been putting
>> off - attached is a list (in no particular order):
>> * unicode support (this will probably uglify the code considerably).
> 
> 
> 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.

Indeed. The trick is to convert to Unicode early and to use Unicode
literals instead of string literals in the code.

Note that the only real-life Unicode format in use is UTF-16
(with BOM mark) written by Excel. Note that there's no standard
for specifying the encoding in CSV files, so this is also the only
feasable format.

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