PEP 305 - CSV File API

[John Machin]

Carlos Ribeiro <cribeiro at mail.inet.com.br> wrote in message news:<mailman.1044231844.17120.python-list at python.org>...
> And last, but not least, the CSV library has to take into account other things 
> that happen to be problematic, and that are locale-related:
> 
> - reading dates from a CSV file

Certainly dates are a problem in that they are presented differently
to users in different locales, and most people don't bother to use the
ISO standard when writing to a file --- however, in what way is
reading dates from a CSV-format file any different to reading them
from any other format?