CSV ignores lineterminator

[Skip Montanaro]

    Jeffrey> Yes, I expect your example to work because each entry in the
    Jeffrey> list defines a "line" regardless of csv:
    ...
    Jeffrey> In my example, the first "line" of the list is
    Jeffrey> 'word1\tword2;word3\tword4'.  What I expect to happen is that
    Jeffrey> the list passes the entire line to csv.reader(), which then
    Jeffrey> splits off 'word1\tword2' as the first line by virtue of the
    Jeffrey> presence of the lineterminator ';' and then continues to scan
    Jeffrey> what remains.  

I haven't the time to think deep thoughts about this problem at the moment.
You might want to post to the csv mailing list (csv at mail.mojam.com) and see
if one of the other csv folks can provide a more coherent/accurate answer.

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