csv module strangeness.

[John Machin]

tobiah wrote:
> > However, more generally, the docs also clearly state that "In addition
> > to, or instead of, the dialect parameter, the programmer can also
> > specify individual formatting parameters, which have the same names as
> > the attributes defined below for the Dialect class."
>
> I definitely missed that.  Knowing that, I don't think I will ever need the Dialect
> class, but I still think that the docs for the Dialect class are broken.

FWIW, I think the whole Dialect class idea is a baroque byzantine
over-elaborated unnecessity that also happens to suffer from poor docs.
[Exit, pursued by a bear]