[Csv] another _csv question

[Andrew McNamara]

>    Andrew> I think this is an unnecessary restriction. You might want to do
>    Andrew> something like:
>
>    Andrew>     class SnifferDialect(csv.Dialect):
>    Andrew>         pass
>
>    Andrew>     def sniff(...):
>    Andrew>         dialect = SnifferDialect()
>    Andrew>         ... try stuff ...
>    Andrew>         dialect.delimiter = '\t'
>    Andrew>         ... try more stuff ...
>
>I can buy that.  Maybe what we need then is some way to force validation
>after changes are made, but before the dialect info is tossed over the wall
>to the low-level module.

I think we're trying too hard - it's acceptable for the validation to only
occur when the reader or writer factories are called, I think.

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Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft
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